Tag Archives: Edward Lear

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

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

Dark Whimsy

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(A post that started months ago as I realised my creative attention had moved for the time being toward something between the poem and the prose poem. These pieces arose from my engagement with social media rather than the conventional … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bruno Schulz, Charlie Kaufman, Clark Ashton Smith, David Bowie, Edward Lear, Franz Kafka, George Herriman, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ivor Cutler, James Finlayson, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Woodring, John Ashbery, Krazy Kat, Lewis Carroll, Michal Ajvaz, Michel Gondry, Monty Python and The Goodies, Mood Indigo, Morrissey, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Pete and Dud (and Derek and Clive), Philip Guston, Robert Crumb, Spike Milligan, The Flaming Carrot, The Goons, The Simpsons, The Wipers Times, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson | Leave a comment

Jelly Bo Lee Jubilee

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Bill Herbert

This selection of sparrow-mumblings is posted to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Edward Lear’s birth, and indeed commences with a small hommage/omelette/oubliette. This has been a busy couple of months of ‘proper’ composition, the results of which shall soon … Continue reading →

Posted in sparrow mumbling | Tagged Brian Holton, Cuirt, Ed Miliband, Edward Lear, Jane Harris, Kirsty Allsop | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Edward Lear

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Dark Whimsy

Jelly Bo Lee Jubilee

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