Tag Archives: Geoffrey Hill

Whose English Is It Anyway?

Posted on February 14, 2016 by W N Herbert

(This is a very overdue reposting of a poem commissioned for The Verb as part of the BBC’s 2014 Freethinking Festival. The delay, apart from the usual reluctance to appear to be self-publishing anything beyond the lightest or most spontaneous … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar, sparrow mumbling, xenochronicity | Tagged Berwick, Brigantia, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Deleuze, Donald Trump, Dundee Makarship, Freethinking Festival, Geoffrey Hill, Mercia, New Aberdour, Public Art, Scots language, Shakespeare, Slade, The Heptarchy, The Verb | 3 Comments

Carry On, Leonora: 2

Posted on October 3, 2015 by W N Herbert

(Part two focuses momentarily on the image at the heart of this piece before pursuing these abstruse threads any further through the Labyrinth…) Naturally, that isn’t the painting’s full title, which is ‘Oink! (They Shall Behold Thine Eyes)’, with the … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged André Breton, Astarte, David Cameron, Diktynna, Geoffrey Hill, Leonora Carrington, Mark E. Smith, Oink!, Philip K. Dick, Piggate, Ron Silliman, The Mistress of the Thresholds | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Posted on October 3, 2015 by W N 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

Heroes and Homilies (2)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by W N Herbert

(This second section is where the homiletic theme appears in relation to Henryson. Parts of this draw on a review of Heaney’s Henryson, reproduced elsewhere on this blog, that I did for The Scottish Review of Books. But, as I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Aesop, Beowulf, Caliban, Chaucer, Geoffrey Hill, Grendel, Mercian Hymns, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Sweeney Astray, Ted Hughes, Testament of Cresseid, The Scottish Review of Books, W.H. Auden | Leave a comment

For the Time Being: Geoffrey Hill

Posted on May 31, 2015 by W N 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 W N 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

Tag Archives: Geoffrey Hill

Whose English Is It Anyway?

Carry On, Leonora: 2

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Heroes and Homilies (2)

For the Time Being: Geoffrey Hill

Ed-Dorn-Burgh Review

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