I like this cover pic. Book out in October in UK, Feb in USA.

Starting a new project on the language of Queen Elizabeth I. She uses a lot of triplets & “not…but” antitheses. Should I run her speeches through Pangram to check for AI assistance?

Expressing “doubt” at jonathanbate.substack.com - just posted. theguardian.com/culture/2026…

Somewhat niche category but a #1 of sorts?

Under Loughrigg

Thank you @thetls

Wordsworth’s skates that hissed along the polished ice and cut across the reflex of a star

Agree with @simon_schama - so is this their finest sketch or would that be the philosophers’ football match?

Lovely morning filming promotional video for *The Garden* in Oxford Botanic Garden @obgha which features in the book from @wmcollinsbooks - its history & literary associations

First stop on *The Garden* book tour @clivedenlitfest

Should I reply on his behalf?

Reading proofs of Botanic Gardens chapter of my new book I wonder whether @PhilipPullman consciously or unconsciously has Lyra echoing Sebastian Flyte.

Proof reading US edn of *The Garden*. Many lovely colour pics but this b/w image makes me laugh.

Interviewed by @Jacinta_Parsons for her docu about the amazing Liz Hicklin, whose importance in the life of Ted Hughes I greatly underestimated in my bio. Hope Liz’s debut play at age of 95, *Sylvia Plath stole my boyfriend*, is a triumph.

Rewatched 2001 last night. Hal’s behavior seems very prescient. Life imitates art?

Had drought & hose ban killed my euonymus hedge or if I cut right back might it regrow?

Few places more beautiful than this.

I am getting sucked down the AI rabbit hole. I asked Claude to write a poem about itself in the style of Geoffrey Hill.

Claude and I wrote about “The Plagiarist of Jesus College Cambridge” on jonathanbate.substack.com

I wrote about the naughty Elizabethan doctor Simon Forman on Jonathanbate.substack.com