Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21

A new bronze sculpture of the English Romantic poet John Keats will be unveiled next week, close to his birthplace in Moorgate in the City of London.

The sculpture by British artist Martin Jennings will be revealed at midday on 31 October, on what would have been Keats’s 229th birthday. Keats was the son of an ostler at a City inn and livery stable called The Swan and Hoop, which stood just south of the modern-day Moorgate station.