Tag Archives: Kathleen Jamie

Three notes: 3, on Scots

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(A couple of weeks before Xmas, while I was waiting around to be chosen for jury duty, I was reflecting on the relation between the work I was doing on Scots in my old school, and the latest manifestations of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Alison Flett, Billy Letford, Dave Coates, Don Paterson, Dundee, Dundonian, Grove Academy, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Gove, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Garioch, Scots, Scots English, Tom Leonard | 1 Comment

Non-Standard (3)

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This third section throws down some ideas about teaching Creative Writing that would obviously benefit from being revisited, particularly in terms of the power relationship inherent in mentor-tutee interactions, but the main intent is, I hope, evident: to carve out … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Aristotle, Bartleby, Brian Vickers, Cicero, Herman Melville, Iowa, Kathleen Jamie, Martyn Crucefix, Matthew Hollis, Paul Farley, Robert Crawford, Robert Frost, Sean O'Brien, Sir Philip Sidney, Stefan Szymanski, Strong Words, Tom Grimes | Leave a comment

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

Non-standard (1)

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(Following on from my previous post, this is the intro to a talk I gave at, possibly, the 2005 British Council Oxford Conference – I say ‘possibly’, because I can’t find any confirmation on the British Council’s site. Perhaps a … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bartleby, British Council, Bruckner, Christopher Whyte, Dante, David Craig, Don Paterson, Gabriel Harvey, Herman Melville, James Thomson, Kathleen Jamie, Lancaster University, Newcastle University, Oxford University Poetry Society, Robert Crawford, Sarah Lawrence College, The T.S.Eliot lectures, W.S. Graham, Wadham College | Leave a comment

Interview for Gentleman

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Bill Herbert

(Gentleman is an Indian magazine: about ten years ago, my old pal from Kolkatta, Debanjan Chakrabarti, wrote up this interview based on my last trip to India. I was just getting some poems together for my next trip — next … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Barry MacSweeney, Bertold Brecht, Chennai, Don Paterson, Edmond Jabes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Donne, Kaalbaishakhi, Kathleen Jamie, Kolkatta, Norman MacCaig, Santiniketan, Sean O'Brien, Stan Laurel, Tagore, Ted Hughes, William McGonnagall, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian | 1 Comment

unique mother tongue

Posted on November 15, 2006 by Bill Herbert

(The following is a piece I’ve written for Unique Mother Tongue, a project for poets organised by the wonderful Chinese poet Yang Lian. It may or may not appear in this form on the UMT website (see ‘links’) but here it is … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Emran Salahi, Kathleen Jamie, Manaschi, Mayakovsky Museum, Mikhail Aizenberg, Milan Kundera, Naomi Pinnock, Odyssey, Xinjiang, Yang Lian, Zhai Yongming | Leave a comment

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