Tag Archives: Buster Keaton

A The Poetry Review review

Posted on April 9, 2022 by W N Herbert

So complete is the lacuna created by the pandemic that, when it comes to the microcosm of poetry, entire books were swallowed up by it like Keaton’s famous shot in The General of the titular train steaming off the blown-up … Continue reading →

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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Posted on April 10, 2018 by W N 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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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by W N 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 →

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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Posted on April 7, 2018 by W N 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 →

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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by W N 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 →

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The Great Moc Gonagall

Posted on January 22, 2011 by W N Herbert

Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading →

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