Tag Archives: Hugh MacDiarmid

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Bill Herbert

(Warning, Will Robinson : this section seems to veer off at a tangent before returning to (what appears to be) the subject…) I was struck by a recent and very particular version of our impositions on the customary: the decision … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Bothie Nichts, Buster Keaton, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimmy Shane, Leonora Carrington, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Naked Lunch, Oor Wullie, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Broons, The Courier, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Mighty Boosh, The People's Journal, The Sunday Post, The White Heather Club, VisitScotland, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs | 2 Comments

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

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

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

Close, 2

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(A short disquisition on how sideboards do furnish a room, in which I’m thinking about types of closeness: how close we get to – or should approach – those lives we thought we might lead. How distant the writer might … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics | Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Ane Satire of the Three Estates, Asbestos Garage, Basil Bunting, Broughty Ferry, Burns, Chomei, Dundee, Flarf, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Easson, James Young Geddes, Michael Marra, Sir David Lindsay, Tenerife, The Burns Stanza, The Evening Telegraph, Virtual Sideboard, William McGonagall, Yang Lian | Leave a comment

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

Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Bill Herbert

Reading The Poets of The People’s Journal, edited by Kirstie Blair, I am so far maist impressed by by the mock-rustic ‘Poute’ (Alexander Burgess), wha conducts a sort of omnisatire, in that he critiques mid-19th century assumptions about poetry, the … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged 'Poute' (Alexander Burgess), Adrian Wisniewski, Alexander Moffat, Alison Flett, Annalena McAfee, David Kinloch, David Wheatley, George Gilfillan, Guardian Review, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jackie Kay, Kate Kellaway, Kirstie Blair, Liz Lochhead, Lys Hansen, People's Journal, Peter Howson, R.D. Laing, Richard Price, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Stella Cartwright, Stephen Campbell, The Bottle Imp, Tom Leonard, W.S. Graham, William Letford, William McGonagall | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Hugh MacDiarmid

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

Close, 4

Close, 2

Two Poems for Tom Raworth and an Instant Elegy

Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve

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