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Kelly Grovier was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2005 after being awarded a British Marshall Scholarship. Co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review, he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer. He has written widely on the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Keats, and his biography of London's notorious Newgate prison will be published by John Murray (Hodder) in 2008. In 2004 he was appointed Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His first Carcanet/ OxfordPoets collection A Lens in the Palm was published in 2008.

Praise for Kelly Grovier '...a poet of real humility, who listens to his words and guides them into place.' - Times Literary Supplement '...Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind.' - Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Wales
'Grovier's poems are often amusing and childlike... The narrators may fret, but Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a "slip-knot of stars"'. - New Welsh Review '...William Blake for the twenty-first century' - Planet Magazine

Not many of Kelly Grovier's poems make it halfway down the page. read more

Kelly Grovier’s second collection, The Sleepwalker at Sea , has an ease to it that could be quite misleading: We too should be clambering over stiles, heeling through the ice brûlée of a moon-gilt field, to shoulder ghosts in the dirt where our fathers lie. read more

The Sleepwalker at Sea , Kelly Grovier’s second collection, reveals a deservedly confident poet whose poems often ride to shore upon the mysterious or the cryptic. read more

A second collection by the poet, which explores uncertain states; where 'the world is halves - /mirrors of what is /and will never be'. read more

Elyse Fenton admires two avian-inclined poetry collections In a recent conversation, another poet told me, almost conspiratorially, that she was tired of bird poems. read more

The mention of 'palm' in Kelly Grovier's first collection promises thrilling sleights of mind. read more

As the publishers’ blurb says, this book ‘speaks from a world of fragmented philosophies and troubled meditations.’ read more

As we might guess from the striking Japanese woodcut of a monkey reaching for the moon on the cover of Kelly Grovier's first collection, these are poems of Sehnsucht, poems that end with soul or sky or moon or - at least five times - the stars. read more

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Kelly Grovier Books by this author: The Sleepwalker at Sea A Lens in the Palm About Reviews Kelly Grovier was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2005 after being awarded a British Marshall Scholarship. Co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review, he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer. He has written widely on the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Keats, and his biography of London's notorious Newgate prison will be published by John Murray (Hodder) in 2008. In 2004 he was appointed Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His first Carcanet/ OxfordPoets collection A Lens in the Palm was published in 2008. Praise for Kelly Grovier '...a poet of real humility, who listens to his words and guides them into place.' - Times Literary Supplement '...Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind.' - Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Wales 'Grovier's poems are often amusing and childlike... The narrators may fret, but Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a "slip-knot of stars"'. - New Welsh Review '...William Blake for the twenty-first century' - Planet Magazine Not many of Kelly Grovier's poems make it halfway down the page. read more Kelly Grovier’s second collection, The Sleepwalker at Sea , has an ease to it that could be quite misleading: We too should be clambering over stiles, heeling through the ice brûlée of a moon-gilt field, to shoulder ghosts in the dirt where our fathers lie. read more The Sleepwalker at Sea , Kelly Grovier’s second collection, reveals a deservedly confident poet whose poems often ride to shore upon the mysterious or the cryptic. read more A second collection by the poet, which explores uncertain states; where 'the world is halves - /mirrors of what is /and will never be'. read more Elyse Fenton admires two avian-inclined poetry collections In a recent conversation, another poet told me, almost conspiratorially, that she was tired of bird poems. read more The mention of 'palm' in Kelly Grovier's first collection promises thrilling sleights of mind. read more As the publishers’ blurb says, this book ‘speaks from a world of fragmented philosophies and troubled meditations.’ read more As we might guess from the striking Japanese woodcut of a monkey reaching for the moon on the cover of Kelly Grovier's first collection, these are poems of Sehnsucht, poems that end with soul or sky or moon or - at least five times - the stars. read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more Six Sixty-Six: Infinity by Gabriel Josipovici read more
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