St. Francis (Francisco de Zurburán). The first time I saw it, in 1998, I sat quietly and looked at it for maybe forty minutes. Flawless.

It's the start of term, which means it's time to share the brilliant Elizabeth with the new FoundationArts&SocSci students.

Index by me! Can confirm both book and @Harriyot absolutely cracking.

Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language by the brilliant @noreenmasud won the Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript on Friday. Index by me! Can confirm book and author absolutely first-rate.

Don't miss our last seminar of the academic year this Wednesday - look at that incredible title, it's going to be 🔥

If you don't already own a copy of the brilliant A Flat Place by the even more brilliant Noreen Masud, get thee to a bookshop immediately!

Amazing to learn about Humphrey Davy this morning from Hannah Fry and Lauren Laverne on *the very day* that I'll be I traveling down to the school named after Davy in Penzance, to do some teaching on behalf of English@Bristol

My brilliant colleague Evan Jones.

Join us online this Thursday evening! ✨ Noreen Masud will be reading from and talking about her work in conversation with Malachy Tallack; her latest book 'A Flat Place' was shortlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. More ℹ️ here: buff.ly/3Lxeh4h

'Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.' Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Day 2: Melchior: Ma'am, do you know the way down from this 'To Read' pile? Glowing Triceratops <glows> #TinyKnittedMagi

Day 3. The #TinyKnittedMagi improvise.

Whoever decided to give Grace Dent the MasterChef gig deserves a pay rise and bottomless Prosecco 🤩👏🏻👏🏻 Hope Gregg Wallace is having a shit day