Tag Archives: Carol Ann Duffy

From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(If you felt the previous section jumped around a bit, you’ll love this, which tries to get from Nietzsche to Carol Ann Duffy in as few paragraphs as possible. Again the argument is trying to favour metaphor’s capacity for comparison … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, Anti-Oedipus, Apollonian, Aristotle, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Isherwood, Coleridge, Creative Writing, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation, Dionysian, Edwin Morgan, Félix Guattari, Fiona Samoson, Freud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gilles Deleuze, Gorbachov, Hesiod, Humphrey Carpenter, John Betjeman, Julian Jaynes, Keats, Lenin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Oedipalisation, Plato, Poetry, Putin, Richard Hugo, Rimbaud, Robert Lowell, Socrates, Stalin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, The Birth of Tragedy, The Cooked and the Raw, The Poet Laureate, The Poetics, The Republic, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wordsworth, Yeltsin | Leave a comment

A Turbulent Makar

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Andrew Motion, Augustus, Ben Jonson, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles II, Creative Scotland, Doctor Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Muir, Frank McAveety, George Mackay Brown, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Jack McConnell, James Hogg, John Dryden, Liz Lochhead, Michael Morpurgo, Norman MacCaig, Restoration, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Fergusson, Roddy Lumsden, Scottish Executive, Scottish Opera, Sorley MacLean, T.S.Eliot, Virgil, W.S. Graham, Walter Scott | Leave a comment

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