Tag Archives: Gairfish

Mourning and Monsters, 2

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Andy Jackson, Asif Khan, Auchenshoogle, Beanotown, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Cactusville, D'Arcy Thompson, Desperate Dan, Dr Patrick Blair, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Emily Dickinson, Florentina, Frankenstein, Gairfish, Grand Theft Auto, Grove Academy, Hector Boece, Informationism, Jim Stewart, Leonora Carrington, Mary Shelle, Mexico City, Minecraft, Monstro, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oor Wullie, Pinocchio, Robert Wedderburn, Strawberry Duck, The Broons, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Courier, The Dundee Whale, The McManus Galleries, The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The People's Friend, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Uncouthy, W.D. Latto, William McGonagall | Leave a comment

Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Bill Herbert

It might make some sense to resume this blog where it left off, with a further reference to the ongoing work on Dundee writing in the 19th century. At the Dundee Literary Festival the other week, Professor Kirstie Blair and … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar, Makaronics, reviews (some antique) | Tagged Adam Wilson, Alexander Burgess, Alyth, Andy Jackson, Athole's Pies, Christopher North, D.C. Thomson's, Dundee, Dundee Literary Festival, Dundee Makar, Eccentric Scotland, Edwin Morgan, Erin Farley, Factory Muse, Gairfish, Gioia Angeletti, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hislop, James 'B.V.' Thomson, James Hogg, James Young Geddes, John Davidson, John Wilson, Kristie Blair, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Nick Newman, Noctes Ambrosianae, Poets of The People's Journal, Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, Poute, Radical Renfrew, Richard Price, Sir John Leng, Tammas Bodkin, The People's Journal, The Scottish Nation, The Wipers Times, Tom Leonard, Valentina Bold, W.D. Latto, Walt Whitman, Whaleback City, William Donaldson, William McGonagall | 1 Comment

Close, 4

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(The previous post involved me testing out and adapting one of Geddes’s ‘thinking machines’ – a little bit of neural coding, if you like. It helped me recognise that my tendencies to withdrawal, incrementalism, slapstickery, and to what I identified … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Bartleby, Chapman, Charlotte Higgins, Dundee, Dundee Poetry, Gairfish, Helen Kidd, Hermless, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jim Benstead, Jim Stewart, Keith Jebb, Michael Marra, Oxford, Patrick Geddes, Phyllida Barlow, Punkademia, Richard Price, Slapp Happy, The Bartleby Syndrome, The Guardian, The Secondary, Tom Raworth | Leave a comment

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Bill Herbert

Like several Scottish and Northern cities which have struggled with their changing identity – are they, as formerly, principally provincial conglomerations, or can they become something more, something capable of rebalancing the stacked centre/region dichotomy? – Dundee has performed and … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alice, Cox's Stack, Czech Republic, D.M. Brown's, Darlington, Draffens, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Durham, Edinburgh, Edwin Morgan, Elgin, Flann O'Brien, Frieda Kahlo, Gairfish, General Monck, Groucho's, Grove Academy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Hull, Informationist Dundee, Jackie Kay, John Davidson, Kolkata, Lewis Carroll, Liz Lochhead, Mennie's, Mexico City, Michael Marra, Monty Python, Newcaslte, Noctes Ambrosianae, Pedro Serrano, Richard Price, Royal Arch, Royal Society of Literature, Scots language, Shanghai, Situationism, Speedwell Tavern, Stirling, Tay Whale, Taybridge Bar, The Goons, The McManus, The Overgate, The Pillars, The Ruin, The White Knight, Through the Looking Glass, Trades Kirk, Virtual Scotland, W.S. Graham, Whaleback City, William McGonagall, Wordsworth Trust | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Gairfish

Mourning and Monsters, 2

Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

Close, 4

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

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