Tag Archives: Edwin Muir

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

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

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

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

Tag Archives: Edwin Muir

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Non-Standard (2)

Embodying delight (some formulae)

A Turbulent Makar

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