Tag Archives: Douglas Dunn

Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(I’ll try to post this four part piece daily across this week.) 2 One social phenomenon which illustrates this neatly is the late Soviet satiric mode of stiob*. According to Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak, who produced a study comparing stiob … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alexei Yurchak, Archilochus, Basil Bunting, Charlie Brooker, Dominic Boyer, Douglas Dunn, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, Isaiah Berlin, Kate Fox, Louis Theroux, Nathan Barley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seamus Heaney, stiob, Ted Hughes, The Colbert Report, The Day Today, Tony Harrison | Leave a 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

The Great Moc Gonagall

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Bill 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 →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall | Leave a comment

Embodying delight (some formulae)

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Bill Herbert

Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, The Gallery Press, 79pp; Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet, 74pp; Lynne Wycherley, North Flight, Shoestring Press, 70pp. There are a number of now quite stately premisses on which we still rely when we come to … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alan Gillis, Charles Darwin, Colette Bryce, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, George Mackay Brown, Jen Hadfield, John Clare, Louis MacNiece, Lynne Wycherley, ohn Burnside, Paul Muldoon, Pauline Stainer, Poetry London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrissey, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

ministrations, legions, loneliness

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This appeared in Poetry London in Spring 2006, and looks at Stewart Conn, David Harsent and Piotr Sommer.) These three poets, one Scots, one English, one Polish, respond in contrasting ways to their shared European context, its heritage and its … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged August Kleinzahler, Bach, David Harsent, Douglas Dunn, Euripides, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Keith Douglas, Mozart, Piotr Sommer, Poetry London, Stewart Conn, William Dunbar | 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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Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

Non-Standard (2)

The Great Moc Gonagall

Embodying delight (some formulae)

ministrations, legions, loneliness

A Turbulent Makar

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