I was down in Middlesbrough to give a reading and happened to be wandering past the studio where CHris Stewart was setting up his Psychopomposity exhibition, and so he invited me to read something from his zine, elegantly entituled Faeces Shit Brain. I’d liked ‘Flesh Vest’ when I had read the zine initially, so here it is:
Poet and pseudo-scholar W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee in 1961, educated there and at Oxford, where he completed his DPhil thesis on Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid, and now lives and works in Newcastle. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and his books are published by, among others, northern publisher Bloodaxe Books. He is also the Dundee Makar, or city laureate.
