@Amy_Fleur_Stone @LaingArtGallery @BBCFOUR Oh, there is so much here. On the surface a poem by Keats but actually Keats was referring/stealing verse much, much older. And then the painter and his muse - she died during the painting. So all the classic themes of Isabella were mirrored in the painter's tragedy.

"Melting Point is that rarest of things; a collection that will return to the reader as often as the reader returns to it." Book Review: Melting Point by Baret Magarian northernsoul.me.uk/book-revie… @saltpublishing @desmondbullen pic.twitter.com/VPvShUR5C6

For nearly 30 years we've been obsessed with this painting at Newcastle's @LaingArtGallery - Isabella and the Pot of Basil. There's a dark history there... pic.twitter.com/Z1LLL7hima

We love the Laing... twitter.com/DeMorganF/stat…

@iainawatson My toddler corduroy dungarees were definitely a sludge brown.