Shelley Memorial Project Community Interest Company

The Shelley Memorial Project, as well as celebrating contemporary poetry, aims to facilitate a fitting permanent public memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley for public enjoyment, inspiration and education, in the Horsham district where he was born, and thereby to commemorate the enduring power of the work of one of the major English Romantic poets and Horsham’s most famous citizen.

The memorial will celebrate and commemorate ‘the most eminent person to whom Horsham can lay claim’, and his works. The intention in delivering this memorial is not only to celebrate the achievement of a major literary figure from the Horsham community, but also to:

1. Provide literary, historical and philosophical inspiration to Horsham residents and visitors,

2. Highlight Horsham’s place in our country’s cultural and historical heritage,

3. Represent and inspire the talent within our community, with a particular emphasis on young talent as represented by Shelley’s phenomenal body of work.