Kelly Grovier

Kelly Grovier

Kelly Grovier is an Anglo-American poet and literary critic.

Grovier was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles^[1] and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.^[2] 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^[3] 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.^[4] His poems have also appeared in Poetry Review^[5], P. N. Review, Poetry London, New Welsh Review, Planet (magazine), Quadrant (magazine)^[6], 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 Rodin.

He has written widely on the British Romantic poets, especially William Wordsworth^[7], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.^[8]

Grovier is a regular reviewer of arts and literature for The Observer^[9] and the Times Literary Supplement.^[10]

In 2004 Grovier joined the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth^[11] and in 2007 he was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to write a literary biography of London's infamous Newgate Prison.

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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