Category Archives: dundee makar

Renga City (3)

Posted on May 23, 2021 by W N Herbert

3. Kyū (Outcomes) i. Publication After a while with every project comes that moment of self-reflection: no longer ‘how shall we do this’ or ‘how are we getting on with doing it’, but ‘what shall we do with it now’? … Continue reading →

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Renga City (2)

Posted on May 20, 2021 by W N Herbert

(Part 1 of this article is on the StAnza blog here.) 2. Ha (Observing the rules and departing from them) i. As a set of principles Like any art form that has been practised for hundreds of years, renga is systematised to … Continue reading →

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Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

Posted on October 28, 2017 by W N Herbert

It might make some sense to resume this blog where it left off, with a further reference to the ongoing work on Dundee writing in the 19th century. At the Dundee Literary Festival the other week, Professor Kirstie Blair and … Continue reading →

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World Porridge Day Tag Team

Posted on October 10, 2016 by W N Herbert

As part of my zealous efforts to keep up with the marmalade-packed Poetry Calendar, I have so far failed to observe the fiftieth anniversary of Dundee’s roadbridge ower the Tay, or the 200th anniversary of the local paper, The Courier … Continue reading →

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Awa the Messages (for National Poetry Day 2016)

Posted on October 5, 2016 by W N Herbert

I was prompted to post this piece for National Poetry Day by a comment made on Facebook by the poet Mandy Maxwell, who pointed out that the theme for this year’s NPD has a double meaning for a Scottish (or … Continue reading →

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Stop! in the Name of the New Unsettlement

Posted on June 2, 2016 by W N Herbert

4 (of 4) So the public art proposals I’ve been posting on Strawberry Duck on Tumblr for the last few years aren’t exactly that; they are partly simple enough ideas which could actually be done (and at relatively little expense, … Continue reading →

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Dial the New Unsettlement!

Posted on June 1, 2016 by W N Herbert

3 It is as an opposition to this mindset that I welcome, rejoice in, and kick myself for missing, the construction and demolition of the cardboard Royal Arch by Claire Dow and Olivier Grossetete. Such fond, culturally-informed and – yes … Continue reading →

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Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

Posted on May 31, 2016 by W N Herbert

(I’ll try to post this four part piece daily across this week.) 2 One social phenomenon which illustrates this neatly is the late Soviet satiric mode of stiob*. According to Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak, who produced a study comparing stiob … Continue reading →

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Smile! It’s the New Unsettlement

Posted on May 30, 2016 by W N Herbert

1 (of 4) I was intending to be in Dundee last weekend for a project that strongly appealed to my imagination: the reconstruction and subsequent demolition of a cardboard effigy of the Royal Arch. With my usual, firmly xenochronicitous grasp … Continue reading →

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From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Posted on April 18, 2016 by W N Herbert

Like several  Scottish and Northern cities which have struggled with their changing identity – are they, as formerly, principally provincial conglomerations, or can they become something more, something capable of rebalancing the stacked centre/region dichotomy? – Dundee has performed and … Continue reading →

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