• Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting
• Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
• Seamus Heaney, Sonnet 3, from 'Clearances'
• Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground
• John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
• John Keats, To Autumn

2018

• The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter)
• Islands in the Stream: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Tribute concert (22/02)

2017

• Chicago the musical
• 'Sing Together' Sage Chamber Choir
• Double Bill @ Newcastle: 'Trouble in Tahiti' (Bernstein) and 'Trial by Jury' (Gilbert & Sullivan)
• Giulio Cesare (Handel) by English Touring Opera

2016

• Mosaic Festival: the wild sea (Patrick Wolf and Lisa Hannigan) ♡

till 2015

• (2015) 'Frozen' (play by Bryony Lavery), Pangdemonium

• reviews
• wrap-up posts: with particular thoughts about a collection of books for the month; reflections on reading particular books
• bookshops
• art and museums

tv

• better call saul
• ✔ bates motel
• twin peaks (season 3)
• santa clarita diet
• broadchurch (season 3)
• alfred hitchcock presents (s01e30)
• clique
• rick and morty season 3
• the alienist
• philip k. dick's electric dreams
• nirvana in fire 2
• ✔ the advisors alliance
• the good fight

movies

• ✔ comrades: almost a love story 甜蜜蜜
• 52 hz i love you
• requiem for a dream (2012, darren aronofsky)
• casablanca (1942, michael curtiz)

• A Vision of Battlements, Anthony Burgess
• Signed, Picpus, Georges Maigret
• Conversations with Anthony Burgess
• Sour Candy
• Julian and Maddalo, Percy Shelley
• Beppo & Don Juan Cantos 3-4, Lord Byron
• The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, Andrew Biswell

• The use of poetry and the use of criticism, T.S. Eliot
• The Bible as Literature, T.S. Eliot
• Neo-Orientalism and the Left, Imran Shamsunahar, Quilette Magazine
  • It is the West which is the vehicle of history and Western actors alone who are considered to be moral agents. Should anything occur in the East, it is because Westerners caused it, either intentionally or not. The East is simultaneously exoticized and treated as a blank slate, its own ideologies and cultural views somehow both romanticized and irrelevant. Its peoples are inherently innocent and perpetually vulnerable, requiring outside salvation both in their native lands and their adopted Western homes.
• Racism, Anti-Orientalism and Orientalism, Jonathan Kay, Quilette Magazine