On Friday 15 August, the Finborough Theatre will present a new audio poetry recital exploring the work of Sidney Keyes, one of Britain’s finest poets of the Second World War, who was killed in action in 1943, shortly before his 21st birthday.
Remember Your Lovers tells Keyes’ story through the women he loved — above all, his unrequited passion for Milein Cosman, whom he met in Oxford, where he was a scholar at Queen’s College and she a student at the combined Ruskin-Slade School of Fine Art. (More about Milein’s time in Oxford can be found here.)
Performed by Claire Bloom, Catherine Harvey, Alexander Knox, Neil NcPherson, Annabel Mullion, Louse Mai Newberry, Will de Renzy-Martin and Whoopie Van Raam, Remember Your Lovers will be available free online from 15 August.
Further information here.