Intertexuality
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06.10 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lord Tennyson’s wake? Come and share a dram with Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, James Clavell, and the cast of Star Trek – Captain Kirk will at least be there
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Once In A Lifetime: Autumn in the Sonnets
Autumn? Let’s talk about it as a state of mind – not an opportunity for shops to sell us more landfill we don’t need. A first venture into the SONNETS for Shakespeare Sunday. plus supporting acts.
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15.09 Agatha Christie
When I stop and think about it, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are possibly more frightening than the criminals they expose.
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09.09 Leo Tolstoy
We don’t earn our faces. We don’t choose our symmetry, our hair, our height, our bone structure. Yet somehow we can end up treating the result as though it tells us something about character.
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26.08 John Buchan
Is there anything more unsettling than not knowing what’s real and what isn’t?
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Sharp Dressed Man: Costume in King Lear
I’ve learned to embrace my own scruffiness, but at the same time I HATE the idea that my students live in a world where, increasingly, appearance equals personality or worth. When you put the right clothes on the wrong person … ?
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24.07 Madeline Miller
‘Who wants to live forever?’, as Queen sang in 1986. On her birthday, let’s explore that idea through Madeline MIller’s retellings (with a little help from Tennyson, Edna St Vincent Millay, and Stephen King).
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20.07 Cormac McCarthy
We probably all have a book or two we are frightened of reading. Exploring why makes me readier to hit ‘The Road’ with Cormac McCarthy.
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18.07 Jane Austen
On Jane Austen’s anniversary, don’t begin by rereading Austen. Read something she could never have imagined. Then come back.
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10.07 John Wyndham
Wyndham’s distinctively British Science Fiction is about much, much more than just man-eating plants or weird children.