Gothic Keats Press

15/08/2025

Today is Walter Crane’s 180th birthday. He painted the graves of both John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

‘Working in that restful garden, beneath the murmur of the cypresses, one might almost feel the spirits of the poets still haunted the place, and could understand the feeling expressed by Shelley that ‘it might make one almost in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a spot.’ As an ardent admirer of both poets I was proud to offer my small tribute to their genius and memory.’

18/07/2025

Today, 18 July, is the anniversary of Jane Austen’s death (and only months away from the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth), and we are excited to announce the publication of To Feel Nothing, To Love Nothing (2025), the debut literary novel from author Olivia Claire Louise Newman.

Lush, haunting, and unforgettable, To Feel Nothing, To Love Nothing is a spellbinding tale of love, fate, and the cost of choosing to be seen.

‘To stay is to fade into myth. To step forward is to risk everything. As whispers of her existence spread and unseen forces close in, she must make an impossible choice: remain a ghost, or risk everything for a love that was never meant to be.’

You can find the novel in paperback, hardcover, and electronic formats on Amazon, and select bookshops throughout the UK and US.

To Feel Nothing, To Love Nothing (2025), Book 1 of The Nothing Series by author Olivia Claire Louise Newman, published by Gothic Keats Press.

08/07/2025

To mark the 203rd anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s tragic death at the age of 29, take a look at ‘I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar’ (2022), our essay collection written by both Shelleyans and scholars alike including Professor Michael Owen Jones, Professor Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, Dr Amanda Blake Davis, Clay Franklin Johnson, Lynn Shepherd, Colin Davis, Graham Henderson, Marty Ambrose, and The Shelley Memorial Project.

A collection of essays that commemorate the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death. He died 8th July 1822, two hundred years ago today.

31/03/2025

A world without women. A love that was never meant to be. A choice that changes everything...

We’re excited to announce our publication of the debut literary fantasy novel To Feel Nothing, To Love Nothing by Olivia Claire Louise Newman on July 18th.

Pre-order the ebook now and check back for additional details, including giveaways and sneak peeks. 📖

https://us.amazon.com/Feel-Nothing-Love-Book-ebook/dp/B0F2SJ8Y46?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BCAGQ9Gm_k22ty4ZA3KCUUUuob07dVycDoE_irZa8SI.twFWYSF44lsEDI94clY8SHNNMO8LIrxiE5bHiuFDeiw&dib_tag=AUTHOR

13/12/2024

16/08/2024

Today, 202 years ago, on a ‘magnificent extent’ of sea-shore near Viareggio, Italy, the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley occurred in spectacularly pagan fashion, complete with funeral pyre and offerings of spice, wine and frankincense. For a detailed account, including differing accounts by those who were there (and even those who weren’t there), read ‘Gothicized, Glamourized, Mythologized: The Funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley’, an essay by Clay Franklin Johnson.

On 16 August 1822, two hundred years ago today, the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley was held upon “a magnificent extent” of sea-shore on the “blue and windless Mediterranean” near Viareggio, Italy.

10/08/2024

Clay Franklin Johnson is a writer, amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature and Romantic poetry. Clay is the author of A Ride Through Faerie & Other P…

09/08/2024

‘He is with the Poets!’

It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Clive Jones, who through his volunteer tours and poetry readings was for many people their first and lasting impression of Keats House.

He will always be remembered for his generosity and passion for Keats and is greatly missed by everyone who knew him.

04/08/2024

Today is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s birthday, one of the most brilliantly original poets of the Romantic age. Here is our collection of essays, ‘I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar’: Essays in Honour of Percy Bysshe Shelley on the Bicentenary of His Death (2022), which includes pieces by Professor Michael Owen Jones, Professor Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, Dr Amanda Blake Davis, Clay Franklin Johnson, Lynn Shepherd, Colin Silver, Graham Henderson, Marty Ambrose, and the Shelley Memorial Project.

A collection of essays that commemorate the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death. He died 8th July 1822, two hundred years ago today.

16/07/2024

Two hundred years ago today, 16 July 1824, the one and only Lord Byron was buried in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. We are remembering him today by publishing a collection of poetry in his honour.

We are very proud of the collection, which we titled ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’: Poems in Honour of Lord Byron for the Bicentenary Year of his Death. You can read these wonderfully Byronic poems here:

https://www.gothickeatspress.com/poems-to-honour-the-200th-anniversary-of-lord-byrons-death

10/03/2024

*POETRY SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN*

We are excited to announce that we will be publishing a collection of contemporary poetry this summer in honour of Lord Byron to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. The deadline for poems is 1 June 2024.

See link below for submission details.

We are excited to announce a collection of contemporary poetry in honour of Lord Byron to commemorate the bicentenary of his death on 19 April 1824.

23/10/2023

Here is ‘“Full Fathom Five the Poet Lies”: The Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ by Lynn Shepherd.

The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia. A dreadful death, dreadfully young, but was it really just a tragic accident, or something far darker and more disturbing?