Tag Archives: Don Paterson

Three notes: 3, on Scots

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(A couple of weeks before Xmas, while I was waiting around to be chosen for jury duty, I was reflecting on the relation between the work I was doing on Scots in my old school, and the latest manifestations of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Alison Flett, Billy Letford, Dave Coates, Don Paterson, Dundee, Dundonian, Grove Academy, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Gove, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Garioch, Scots, Scots English, Tom Leonard | 1 Comment

Non-Standard (2)

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This second part is drawn from the lectures I delivered at Newcastle on ‘Modern Scottish Poetry’, a course I taught until it became evident that Creative Writing was where all the effort needed to go, in terms of designing an … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bartleby, Christopher Whyte, Don Paterson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Francis Jones, Herman Melville, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kathleen Jamie, Lawrence Venuti, Liz Lochhead, Michel Foucault, Paul Muldoon, Radical Renfrew, Sharon Olds, T.S.Eliot, Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison | Leave a comment

Non-standard (1)

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(Following on from my previous post, this is the intro to a talk I gave at, possibly, the 2005 British Council Oxford Conference – I say ‘possibly’, because I can’t find any confirmation on the British Council’s site. Perhaps a … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bartleby, British Council, Bruckner, Christopher Whyte, Dante, David Craig, Don Paterson, Gabriel Harvey, Herman Melville, James Thomson, Kathleen Jamie, Lancaster University, Newcastle University, Oxford University Poetry Society, Robert Crawford, Sarah Lawrence College, The T.S.Eliot lectures, W.S. Graham, Wadham College | Leave a comment

Makaroni Peh

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Bill Herbert

(Here’s a splicing together of the short statement I sent out to The Courier and the text of the even shorter speech I gave by way of intro to the first commissioned poem as Dundee’s Makar, or laureate. That was … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Don Paterson, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Dundee University Press, Ellie McDonald, Harvey Holton, John Glenday, Mary Brooksbank, Matthew Fitt, Michael Alexander, Tracy Herd, Whaleback City | Leave a comment

Interview for Gentleman

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Bill Herbert

(Gentleman is an Indian magazine: about ten years ago, my old pal from Kolkatta, Debanjan Chakrabarti, wrote up this interview based on my last trip to India. I was just getting some poems together for my next trip — next … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Barry MacSweeney, Bertold Brecht, Chennai, Don Paterson, Edmond Jabes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Donne, Kaalbaishakhi, Kathleen Jamie, Kolkatta, Norman MacCaig, Santiniketan, Sean O'Brien, Stan Laurel, Tagore, Ted Hughes, William McGonnagall, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian | 2 Comments

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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Three notes: 3, on Scots

Non-Standard (2)

Non-standard (1)

Makaroni Peh

Interview for Gentleman

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