Kelly Grovier

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poet and literary critic

Kelly Grovier is an American poet.

Grovier was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles [ [http://www.uclalumni.net/AlumniStories/Awards/bio/Grovier.cfm Alumni Stories - Alumni Awards ] ] and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. [ [http://www.marshallscholarship.org/alumni/class-photos/1990s/1992 Class of 1992 ] ] He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2005 after writing a thesis on the eighteenth-century adventurer and philosopher, John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822).

Grovier is co-founder of the scholarly journal "European Romantic Review" [ [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1050-9585&linktype=5 Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome ] ] and former editor of the literary magazine "Oxford Poetry".

His first collection of poems, "A lens in the palm", was published by Carcanet Press in January 2008. [ [http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=873 Carcanet Press - Kelly Grovier ] ] His poems have also appeared in "Poetry Review" [ [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=13561 poetrymagazines.org.uk - Conversion: The Ruined Statue of a Saint ] ] , "P. N. Review", "Poetry London", "New Welsh Review", "Planet (magazine)", "Quadrant (magazine)" [ [http://quadrant.org.au/php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=1836 Quadrant Magazine ] ] , "Stand", and "The Mays". Lyric and philosophical, Grovier's poetry is haunted by the ghosts of Augustine and Spinoza, Jakob Boehme and Meister Eckhart, Giotto and Auguste Rodin.

He has written widely on the British Romantic poets, especially William Wordsworth [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/romanticism/v013/13.2grovier.html Project MUSE ] ] , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats. [ [http://litthe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/361 Keats and the Holocaust: Notes Towards A Post-Temporalism - Grovier 17 (4): 361 - Literature and Theology ] ]

Grovier is a regular reviewer of arts and literature for "The Observer" [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/artsandentertainment/0,,2104650,00.html Keep your eyes wide shut | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books ] ] and the "Times Literary Supplement". [ [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3363528.ece Coleridge and Goethe, together at last Kelly Grovier TLS ] ]

In 2004 Grovier joined the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth [ [http://www.aber.ac.uk/english/staffinfo/nkg.html Department of English - Staff Information ] ] . His narrative history of London's notorious Newgate Prison, "The Gaol", was published in July 2008 and was broadcast by BBC Radio as Book of the Week from 14-18 July. The abridgement was read by the classical stage actor Jasper Britton. "The Gaol" was Pick of the Week for both the Radio Times (14 July) and BBC (20 July), and Pick of the Day for The Guardian (12 July) and The Sunday Times (13 July).

Bibliography

* "A lens in the palm" (2008) Carcanet Press, Oxford Poets ISBN-10 1903039886 ISBN-13 978-1903039885
* "The Gaol: the story of Newgate – London's most notorious prison" (forthcoming, 2008) John Murray (publisher), Hodder Headline ISBN-10 0719561329 ISBN-13 978-0719561320
* "Travels of the mind": "Walking" Stewart and the making of Wordsworth's imagination" (forthcoming) Liverpool University Press

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