Tag Archives: Captain Beefheart

Waukendremes, 2

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Bill Herbert

The opposite of falling asleep while reading must be, exactly, waking up while writing. I’ve had, as most writers have, the experience of waking with a phrase or an entire poem in my head; or of remembering at the point … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Captain Beefheart, Dorveille, Elvis Presley, Jean Cocteau, Richard Gwyn, Syd Barrett, the Aztecs, the Moon-Bison, Waukendreme | Leave a comment

Dehydrating the Narrative

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Bill Herbert

I think of my seven/fourteen tweet pieces and those of my colleagues in Chimera Group such as George Szirtes or James Knight, or the tweet series of Jeff Noon, or his group Echovirus12, not so much as prose poems as … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged August Derleth, Captain Beefheart, Chimera Group, Clark Ashton Smith, Deconstruction, Don Van Vliet, Echovirus12, George Szirtes, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkein, James Knight, Jeff Noon, Lin Carter, Mars, Philip K. Dick, Platonism, Raymond Roussel, Robert E. Howard, Secondariness, The Silmarillion | 1 Comment

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(I’ve been vaguely attempting to push on with my next post about Leonora Carrington, which focuses on Mexico City, but in fact have been obsessing about Syd Barrett instead. Somehow, not only are these two subjects related, but Barrett seems … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged A.A. Milne, Billy Mackenzie, Captain Beefheart, Chuang Tzu, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dickens, Edinburgh, Edward Lear, Eno, G. Gregory Smith, Hogmanay, Humble Pie, Jeff Shirley, Keats, Leonora Carringtom, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Jones, Mark E. Smith, Mexico City, Pink Floyd, Richard Dadd, Robert Fergusson, Robert Wyatt, Roger Waters, Scrooge, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Daft Days | Leave a comment

Scotlit’s subliminal awards

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(A version of this article appeared in Scotland on Sunday in January 2004. It reflects on the shift in policy on the part of the Scottish Arts Council from giving a series of small awards to giving one large one.) … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Captain Beefheart, Don Paterson, James Robertson, Mark Haddon, Saltire Prize, Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, T.S. Eliot Prize, Whitbread, William Dalrymple | Leave a comment

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Waukendremes, 2

Dehydrating the Narrative

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Scotlit’s subliminal awards

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