Tag Archives: Basil Bunting

Close, 2

Posted on May 4, 2017 by W N Herbert

(A short disquisition on how sideboards do furnish a room, in which I’m thinking about types of closeness: how close we get to – or should approach – those lives we thought we might lead. How distant the writer might … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics | Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Ane Satire of the Three Estates, Asbestos Garage, Basil Bunting, Broughty Ferry, Burns, Chomei, Dundee, Flarf, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Easson, James Young Geddes, Michael Marra, Sir David Lindsay, Tenerife, The Burns Stanza, The Evening Telegraph, Virtual Sideboard, William McGonagall, Yang Lian | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alexei Yurchak, Archilochus, Basil Bunting, Charlie Brooker, Dominic Boyer, Douglas Dunn, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, Isaiah Berlin, Kate Fox, Louis Theroux, Nathan Barley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seamus Heaney, stiob, Ted Hughes, The Colbert Report, The Day Today, Tony Harrison | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Posted on October 3, 2015 by W N Herbert

(This is the first of five sections of a piece I’ve been puzzling over all summer about the great British Surrealist painter and writer, Leonora Carrington. Puzzling because I don’t quite know where I’m going with this, though it clearly … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alastair Reid, André Breton, Barry MacSweeney, Basil Bunting, Braque, Crete, Cubism, Da Vinci, Dalí, Dark whimsy, David Jones, De Chirico, Dotor Who, Edward Lear, Edwin Muir, Elena Poniatowska, Eric Mottram, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Geoffrey Hill, Harry Tawb, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iggy Pop, John Ashbery, John Fuller, Jon Pertwee, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Kenneth White, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Liverpool, Lyn Hejinian, Lynne Roberts, Max Ernst, Mick Imlah, Miró, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blake, Prynne, Richard Dadd, Robert Duncan, Roger Delgado, Ron Silliman, Sir Arthur Evans, Spike Milligan, Surrealism, Susannah Clarke, Ted Berrigan, Terry Gilliam, The Autons, The House of Fear, The Labyrinth, The Ruin, The Tate, Tristram Shandy, Victor Brauner, W.S. Graham | 3 Comments

homeless words

Posted on March 26, 2007 by W N Herbert

(This little review of the NE magister MacSweeney was for Scotland on Sunday, and was written in June 2003.) Occasionally, in the middle of the night, those who knew Barry MacSweeney would receive questionable phonecalls. He had a wry, lilting … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Barry MacSweeney, Basil Bunting, J.H. Prynne, Michael McClure, Thomas Chatterton | Leave a comment

Root and Graft

Posted on March 19, 2007 by W N Herbert

(This piece was written in November 2004 in response to a request from Beeb2’s Culture Show for a take on the NE’s literary scene. It didn’t take. But it roughs out the idea that there is in the UK a cultural … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Alan Plater, Andrea Badenoch, Anne Stevenson, Basil Bunting, Connie Pickard, Debbie Taylor, Fred D’Aguiar, Gillian Allnutt, Jack Mapanje, Jackie Kay, Jo Shapcott, Julia Darling, Kitty Fitzgerald, Lee Hall, Linda France, Margaret Wilkinson, Morden Tower, New Writing North, Pat Barker, Penny Sumner, Peter Straughan, Sean O’Brien, Sid Chaplin, Tom Hadaway, Tony Harrison, Val MacDermid | Leave a comment

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Close, 2

Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

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homeless words

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