Elinor Jansz's London Cultural Diary

University friends Elinor Jansz and Richard Embray set up Four Corners Books with the aim of publishing an art book - a book about London's adventure playgrounds. That one art book became two books, then three and, ten years, later they are still making books with the aim of making affordable, beautifully made books on overlooked artists and art in its broadest sense. This year they will publish illustrated editions of The Canterbury Tales and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Elinor Jansz told us the cultural events in London 2014 she's looking forward to. 

POETRY: Lavinia Greenlaw,   A Double Sorrow ,  a reading ( Faber & Faber)

I love Lavinia Greenlaw's poems and am especially interested to hear her reading from her new work A Double Sorrow Troilus and Criseyde. Her retelling of Chaucer's tragic love story is accompanied by cellist Oliver Coates. For the last 6 years we've been publishing novels and short stories illustrated by artists, so this contemporary re-working of a classic tale is of particular interest to me.

THEATRE: Daniel Kitson Analog.Ue , Lyttelton, National Theatre

The Daniel Kitson stand-up and theatre melding has been fantastic and his new show sounds so weird, I can't wait.

THEATRE: Inner Voices , Barbican 

This looks really good but also it stars and is directed by Tony Servillo, who was in my favourite film of last year The Great Beauty - so I have to see it.

KIDS: Skitterbang Island , Little Angel Puppet Theatre 

Even if I didn't have two small children I'd go and see any show the Little Angel Theatre put on. The whole experience is enchanting and you can even peep into the workshop next door to see where the puppets are made.

MUSIC: Darren Hayman  Occupation , Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston

Using synthesizers and old analogue drum machines, songwriter Darren Hayman will be performing a night of music inspired by animals and people in space...it sounds amazing. I first heard Hayman's music when my colleague Richard gave my newborn son Hayman's brilliant cd Pram Town. I'm not sure what my son thought of it but I loved it.

ART: Martin Creed, The Hayward Gallery

Artists today make art out of anything. Martin Creed makes art, quite often, out of nothing, or at least almost nothing: bluetack, masking tape, toilet rolls and balloons - it's work that is full of ideas but also full of feeling, or as he puts it, it's like 'a feeling sandwich with ideas in the middle' .