@shelleyproject.bsky.social
Community group in Horsham, West Sussex aiming to establish a lasting public memorial to the poet Shelley for public enjoyment, inspiration and education. https://www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/competition-2025
Writer David Collard has gifted us his script for Inventing the Truth: Shelley v Trelawny, imagining Mary Shelley's visit to Percy's friend Trelawny in Wales.
More on our blog, and we are thrilled to welcome David as our newest supporter.
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Sussex gave the world Percy Bysshe Shelley — now Steyning celebrates him.
Join us 27 May at Steyning Parish Church for “Shelley: A Celebration of Sussex’s Most Famous Poet” with award-winning poet @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social .
🎟 Public tickets on sale 14 March (Friends can book now)
📣READ ALL ABOUT IT! 🗞️
Our wonderful Poetry and Pavlova afternoon for #IWD last Sunday is in the Sussex Express. The afternoon featured the Booming Lovelies in the first half and an open mic session in the 2nd. Ted Gooda reflects on an inspiring afternoon.
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The Booming Lovelies gave a blooming wonderful performance to a packed Women's Hall at our #IWD event in Billingshurst today.
A great day of poetry including open mics, celebrating inspirational women.
We loved the pavlova and refreshments.
Thanks to all who made it such a special event.
🧠✨ 3 weeks to go! ✨🧠
Words, wit & wine 🍷📷Join our Fundraising Quiz Night for The Shelley Project 📷 Sat 28 Feb, Horsham | £6 📷 Book by 21 Feb shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com #Poetry #PercyByssheShelley #Horsham #QuizNight
Some of the project team met sculptor Vincent Gray in his studio north of Chichester to review detailed aspects of the memorial prior to sending the planning application, @HorshamDC, including the poems.
#BringingShelleyHome #PercyByssheShelley #Poetry #Horsham #WestSussex #PublicArt
Join us this #InternationalWomensDay🌸
Poetry, powerful voices & pavlova!
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@BoomingLovelies
🎤 Open Mic: Inspirational Women
📍 Women’s Hall, Billingshurst
📅 Sun 8 March
🎟️ wegottickets.com/event/688524 shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com
#IWD #Poetry #Shelley #Billingshurst
Words, wit & wine 🍷📖
Join our Fundraising Quiz Night for The Shelley Project
⭐ Win rare Poet Laureate sherry & signed Simon Armitage poetry
📅 Sat 28 Feb, Horsham | £6
📧 Book by 21 Feb
shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com
#Poetry #PercyByssheShelley #Horsham #QuizNight
Liz and Ted, both judges of our International Poetry Competition, combine their talents and are hosting Rhyme and Verse, a poetry open mic, next Thursday at The King's Arms, Billingshurst.
To guarantee a spot, book your tickets now! #Poetry #Poetrycommunity #WestSussex
📅 #OnThisDay 1862: Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend & biographer of Shelley, died aged 70. They met at Oxford in 1811, were expelled for publishing The Necessity of Atheism, and remained friends despite tensions.
Read more 👉 wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2017/06...
@ShelleyProject
SMP’s @sarangipani recently read this gem in The Londonist
🖼️ — Louise Vine’s Ode to the West Wind mural on Noel St, Soho, with a blue plaque marking Shelley’s brief 1811 stay, and two more nearby murals featuring Shelley hiding in plain sight.
#Shelley
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The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection
In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026
Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026
Updates & CfP announced:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
[Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]
📢 Another Great Leap Forward! Yesterday we submitted our full planning application for Vincent Gray’s artwork honouring Horsham’s own #PercyByssheShelley 🌿✍️
A step closer to bringing Shelley home.
#Horsham
Blood on St Peter’s Field. Voices silenced by sabres.
On #Peterloo’s anniversary, discover how Shelley’s fiercest poem was fuelled by a radical who saw it all — and defied the censors. #OTD #RiseLikeLions #Shelley
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A magical night at St Margaret’s, Warnham — the church where Shelley was baptised — for Sounds Poetic.
With moving performances by Barry Smith, Linda Kelsall-Barnett, @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
@sashadugdale.bsky.social & more, the evening celebrated poetry in all its power. 💫 #ShelleyMemorial
🎂 Today would be #PercyByssheShelley 233rd birthday, Horsham’s most famous son & one of the greatest Romantic poets.
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
We’re building a public memorial in his birthplace to honour his legacy.
💛 Donate: www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/donate
Thanks to all who have bought tickets for Sounds Poetic with @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social, @sashadugdale.bsky.social, Barry Smith and Linda Kelsall-Barnett, tomorrow in St Margaret's Church Warnham. It's going to be a fantastic celebration. Tickets on the door or
wegottickets.com/event/666643/
Earlier this year, we were delighted to host students from Oak Park High School in California via Zoom. Read more below.
www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/blog/shelley...
If you want to know more about the SMP, please get in touch via shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com #percybyssheshelley
🎶 Barry Smith & Linda Kelsall-Barnett will perform The Triumph of Life (Shelley) & original poetry with music.
🏆 Our competition winners Philip Rosel Baker, Rowan Reddington, Marise Morland-Chapman, and Robin de Rosario poems will be read on the night.
🌟 Sasha Dugdale reads from Joy, Deformation, & The Strongbox.
🔗 Watch: vimeo.com/425459468
"Poetry as a form of magic" – The Independent
🎤 John McCullough reads from Reckless Paper Birds & Panic Response + new poems & Ozymandias.
🔗 Watch: www.bing.com/videos/river...
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📣 Poetry lovers! Join us Saturday for a powerful celebration featuring @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social,
@sashadugdale.bsky.social, Barry Smith/Linda Kelsall-Barnett & our competition winners.
🎟️ Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/666643
📧 shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com
Full lineup ⬇️
Reading in excellent poetic company at St Margaret’s Church in Warnham, Sussex, the church where Shelley the atheist was baptised in support of @shelleyproject.bsky.social on Sat 2 August. Please come along if you are around!
Less than a week to go until this year's poetry celebration, Sounds Poetic, with a stellar lineup including
@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social and @sashadugdale.bsky.social
Tickets available via wegottickets.com/event/666643
Our new anthology, 'And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea', with all of the winning poems from this year's International Poetry Competition, will be on sale at our poetry celebration, Sounds Poetic. Tickets for the event are available via wegottickets.com/event/666643
We are up and running in the lobby between Waitrose and John Lewis in Horsham so come and say hello. You can also see a scale model of the memorial.
We are also raising funds today but if you can't make it, you can donate on our website.
www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk
We’ve had a setback: the originally proposed site for the Shelley Memorial is now too costly for council support. Thankfully, an alternative spot in Horsham Park is being explored. Join us at John Lewis, Horsham on 28/6 to learn more & share your thoughts! #ShelleyMemorial
Submissions for this year’s Shelley Memorial Poetry Comp on Romanticism are now closed. Over 200 entries again—from Horsham to Australia! 🌍
Thanks to all the entrants. Now it’s over to Judge Joe Bunn, Bard of Worthing.
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⏳ Last chance to enter our International Poetry Competition!
Theme: Romantic poetry, inspired by Shelley.
💰 Prizes: £250 / £150 / £50 + Sussex Cup
🗓️ Deadline: Sat 31 May
All poets welcome — new & seasoned!
📩 Enter now:
www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/competition-...