Category Archives: current emanations

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Bill Herbert

I am often nagged by epiphenomena, events sitting at the edge of How Things Should Be, though I don’t usually know what it is they are trying to tell me. Such things are, by definition, peripheral – or at least … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Broughty Ferry, Buster Keaton, Harry Secombe, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Michael Parkinson, One Week, Peter Sellars, Pink Floyd, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Electric House, The Goon Show, Wish You Were Here | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Bill Herbert

(Warning, Will Robinson : this section seems to veer off at a tangent before returning to (what appears to be) the subject…) I was struck by a recent and very particular version of our impositions on the customary: the decision … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Bothie Nichts, Buster Keaton, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimmy Shane, Leonora Carrington, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Naked Lunch, Oor Wullie, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Broons, The Courier, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Mighty Boosh, The People's Journal, The Sunday Post, The White Heather Club, VisitScotland, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs | 2 Comments

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Bill Herbert

Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Bill Herbert

(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy | Leave a comment

Mourning and Monsters, 2

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Andy Jackson, Asif Khan, Auchenshoogle, Beanotown, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Cactusville, D'Arcy Thompson, Desperate Dan, Dr Patrick Blair, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Emily Dickinson, Florentina, Frankenstein, Gairfish, Grand Theft Auto, Grove Academy, Hector Boece, Informationism, Jim Stewart, Leonora Carrington, Mary Shelle, Mexico City, Minecraft, Monstro, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oor Wullie, Pinocchio, Robert Wedderburn, Strawberry Duck, The Broons, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Courier, The Dundee Whale, The McManus Galleries, The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The People's Friend, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Uncouthy, W.D. Latto, William McGonagall | Leave a comment

Mourning and Monsters, 1

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(As Christmas and the year’s end approaches, you begin to adopt Janus’s regard: looking forward to what is shared and anticipated, while reflecting back on what is lost or appears to be completed. I’ve been considering the links between the … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Andy Croft, Broughty Ferry, Byron, Crete, Don Juan, Dundee, Fudan University, N.S. Thompson, Shanghai | Leave a comment

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Bill Herbert

The panel I took part in on translation at last week’s Newcastle Poetry Festival raised a number of issues of equal fascination to both poets and translators, and, one would hope, readers of both. I found myself as excited by … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Charles Olson, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Erica Jarnes, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, Hugh MacDiarmid, I Am The Walrus, Jean Boase-Beier, John Lennon, Kent, Newcastle, Newcastle Poetry Festival, Poettrios, River Tay, Robert Creeley, Robert Wedderburn, Roman Jakobson, Sophie Collins, Tayside, Thatcherism, The Beatles, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Horrors of Slavery, The Maximus Poems, The Monolog Recreativ, The Poetry Translation Centre | 2 Comments

Category Archives: current emanations

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Mourning and Monsters, 2

Mourning and Monsters, 1

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

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