Tag Archives: Crete

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 →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Andy Croft, Broughty Ferry, Byron, Crete, Don Juan, Dundee, Fudan University, N.S. Thompson, Shanghai | Leave a comment

Waukendremes, 1

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Bill Herbert

An interesting blog post from Richard Gwyn about the not uncommon experience of falling asleep while reading reminds me I’ve been exploring a few angles of this phenomenon over the years. That odd-to-and-fro relationship of reader to writer, and of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics | Tagged Cervantes, Crete, Don Quixote, Dundee, Dundee Makar, Emprosneros, James Hogg, Nietzsche, Omnesia, Richard Gwyn, Sancho Panza, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Slew | Leave a comment

Psychogeoferric Footnotes

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This is the last of the plunder from Tumblr: displacement activity for not finishing off the Mexico City post, which I have now no excuse not to return to apart from the full time job. And my accounts. I’m adding … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Andy Jackson, Beijing, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Crete, Dome on the Rock, Donegal, Dundee, Hagia Sophia, James Joyce, Kilometre Zero, Lewis Carroll, Madrid, Magdalen Green, Mexico City, Newcastle, Portmanteau Word, The Discovery, The Forbidden City, The Wailing Wall, Whaleback City | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in dundee makar, Uncategorized | Tagged Balmoral, Broughty Ferry, Constantinople, Crete, Dundee, Gerard Manley Hopkins, McGonagall, Michael Donaghy, Seamus Heaney, The Labyrinth, The Minotaur, The Mona, The Wreck of the Deutschland, Troy, wabi sabi | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Billy Mackenzie, Broughty Ferry, Crete, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Edwyn Collins, Georgioupouli, Harry Papadoupoulos, North Shields | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 3

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(Here the piece returns to old obsessions about what story is, and what it is for. It’s no coincidence that at a certain point during this summer, sitting peering out at the Libyan Sea in the tiny Cretan port of … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alberto Caeiro, Chora Sfakion, Crete, Ernst Neumann, G.S. Morson, Galen Strawsen, Heteronyms, John Updike, Jung, Leonora Carrington, Pessoa, The Anima, The Great Goddess | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Bill 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

Tag Archives: Crete

Mourning and Monsters, 1

Waukendremes, 1

Psychogeoferric Footnotes

PsychoGeoFerry 4

PsychoGeoFerry 2

Carry On, Leonora: 3

Carry On, Leonora: 1

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