A new poem by Shelley...

[fajrdrako]

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major influence on my life when I was twelve. Still is. I never thought that 184 years after his death I'd be seeing a new poem by him.

The news item is from The Times and there'll be more in Saturday's Times Literary Supplement, if I can get my hands on it. I guess that's an excuse to go to Mags and Fags on the weekend (how soon would the paper arrive?) to see if they have a new Starburst or TV Zone. They're the only magazines I know likely to have items on Doctor Who and that's the only store I know likely to carry British magazines.

A new poem by Shelley, a political poem, in collaboration - of all things - with his sister. He must have been eighteen or so when he wrote it. I'd love to know the story of how it 'turned up'.

When I was a student in London, a bunch of papers about Lord Byron just 'turned up', including a poem copied by Claire Clairmont - they'd been lurking in someone's safety deposit box all that time.

I love it when this happens.