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Julian Sands, Readings from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRIDAY 16 JUNE 5 p.m./ TICKETS SOLD OUT FOR THIS EVENT

Join acclaimed and much-loved English actor Julian Sands as he reads some of his personal favourites from Keats and Shelley in a reading to celebrate a new anthology published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association titled John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems, edited by Duncan Wu and with a preface by Julian Sands. 

Julian Sands is an English actor who has worked all over the world in Film, TV, Theatre, and Radio. Best known for appearances in films such as:  A Room With A View,  The Killing Fields,  Impromptu,  Boxing Helena,  Warlock,  Leaving Las Vegas,  Vatel,  Oceans 13,  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and others; and on TV:  24,  Smallville, and  Gotham.  

He first visited the Keats-Shelley House in the late 1970s and played Shelley in Ken Russell’s film Gothic. He has toured Europe and America with a theatre production based on the poetry of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.  

He lists mountaineering as one of his passions and always takes an anthology of poems on his expeditions.