Tag Archives: Broughty Ferry

Renga City (2)

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Bill 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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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 →

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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 →

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Close, 2

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Bill 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 →

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Close, 1

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(When I went off to Crete for 10 days over Paskha, I had a cunning plan. Knowing that I had large projects of scary creative work to do in the realms of both poetry and prose, I set myself two … Continue reading →

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PsychoGeoFerry 4

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This fourth part of the 2013 Tumblr posts has a semi-conclusive air to it, as I didn’t realise what was to come – the makarship, the death – and so could imagine things were heading to some sort of conclusion. … Continue reading →

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PsychoGeoFerry 3

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This third piece is, I suppose, about the quantum level of the imagination – that space between dream and memory in which the dead do not live, but are, for a strange moment, not-dead. The act of return, of re-viewing, … Continue reading →

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PsychoGeoFerry 2

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This second note from 2013 is almost literally about finding my feet: I was doing a lot of walking, revisiting and revision ing and revising my perception of the Ferry and Dundee. The ‘Ginsberg glimpse’ from the flat window presaged, … Continue reading →

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PsychoGeoFerry 1

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(Here is the first of the four earlier ‘psychogeo-‘ postings from Tumblr in their correct order. I realised when I scrolled back to look for them, that they are all pre-Makar, ie from Spring and Summer 2013, and, therefore, before … Continue reading →

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Watching for Dolphins

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Bill Herbert

What does it mean, beyond the simple delight at your own good luck, to look out of your window at the River Tay, and see dolphins swimming past? Or, as happened to me once last year, to pick up the … Continue reading →

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