Tag Archives: Ezra Pound

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Bill Herbert

The panel I took part in on translation at last week’s Newcastle Poetry Festival raised a number of issues of equal fascination to both poets and translators, and, one would hope, readers of both. I found myself as excited by … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Charles Olson, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Erica Jarnes, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, Hugh MacDiarmid, I Am The Walrus, Jean Boase-Beier, John Lennon, Kent, Newcastle, Newcastle Poetry Festival, Poettrios, River Tay, Robert Creeley, Robert Wedderburn, Roman Jakobson, Sophie Collins, Tayside, Thatcherism, The Beatles, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Horrors of Slavery, The Maximus Poems, The Monolog Recreativ, The Poetry Translation Centre | 2 Comments

Two Poems for Tom Raworth and an Instant Elegy

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Bill Herbert

I’m indebted to Peter Manson who, on my posting a short elegy on Tumblr for Tom Raworth, suggested I reproduce here two poems he, Peter, and his co-editor Robin Purves, first published in Object Permanence, no. 3 (Sept 94). These … Continue reading →

Posted in sparrow mumbling, xenochronicity | Tagged Aquinas, Edwin Morgan, Eric Mottram, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, George Roberts, Gwynneth Lewis, Heavy Light, Helen Kidd, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, Joe Kelleher, John Ashbery, Keith Jebb, Language Poetry, Lèvre de Poche, Machiavelli, Mick Imlah, Oxford Covered Market, Oxford Poetry, Oxford University Poetry Society, Peter Manson, Reality Studios, Robert Creeley, Robin Purves, Tom Raworth, W.S. Graham | 1 Comment

Quick notes on editing ‘New Boots’

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(Eek, it’s been a while since I posted here! Still struggling with the unresolvable first section of my Mexican post, with the actual intro for New Boots and Pantisocracies just gone to the publisher, this is a few notes I … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Biographia Literaria, Choman Hardi, Ezra Pound, Fiona Moore, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lyrical Ballads, Marx, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oscar Wilde, Poetry Book Fair, Ron Villanueva, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sophie Mayer, The Smith Commission, Venus and Adonis, W.S. Graham | Leave a comment

Heroes and Homilies (1)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This talk was delivered in the summer of 2014 at Bede’s World as part of their lecture series, and to accompany an exhibition curated by Roger Wollen, ‘Myths, Memories and Mysteries,’ which focussed on a number of contemporary artists influenced … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alexander Pope, Alice Oswald, Bede's World, Beowulf, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Christopher Logue, Ezra Pound, Gawain and the Green Knight, HOmer, J.O. Morgan, John Donne, John Dryden, Joyce, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindisfarne, Patience Agbabi, Robert Henryson, Roger Wollen, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Simon Armitage, Tennyson, Testament of Cresseid, The Battle of Maldon, The Canterbury Tales, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Troilus and Cressida, Virgil | Leave a comment

For the Time Being: Geoffrey Hill

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(The gradual slackening of the academic busy-ness is giving me almost enough room to remember that I have had a series of posts lined up almost ready to go for several months now. That ‘almost’ being the fly in the … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alexander Pope, Cesare Pavese, Charles Péguy, ey Hopkins, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hill, Gerard Man, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jeremy Paxman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laurel and Hardy, Lawes, Lope de Vega, Michael Longley, Mikton, Peter MacDonald, Ron Silliman, Schnittke, Yeats | Leave a comment

Ed-Dorn-Burgh Review

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Bill Herbert

Edward Dorn, Collected Poems (Carcanet), 995pp, £25 (This review of Dorn appeared in Edinburgh Review 139.) In several key ways Ed Dorn’s magisterial Collected Poems is a bridge between the late Modernist milieu of Black Mountain poetics within which he … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Andrew Grieg, Barry MacSweeney, Bill Clinton, Charles Olson, Ed Dorn, Edinburgh Review, Edwin Morgan, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hill, J.H. Prynne, Lee Harwood, Marjorie Perloff, The Magnificent Seven, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, William Carlos Williams, Yul Brynner | Leave a comment

The Third Shore (in three parts): 2

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Bill Herbert

(Here’s the second section of my intro to The Third Shore – this part almost stands alone, I think, as an introduction to the ‘poet to poet’ translation itself. It’s certainly informed by my work in collaborative teams on Farsi, … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Ezra Pound, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Joyce, Poetry, The Third Shore, translation, Wang Wei | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Ezra Pound

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

Two Poems for Tom Raworth and an Instant Elegy

Quick notes on editing ‘New Boots’

Heroes and Homilies (1)

For the Time Being: Geoffrey Hill

Ed-Dorn-Burgh Review

The Third Shore (in three parts): 2

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