Tag Archives: Michael Marra

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Posted on May 11, 2017 by W N 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

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Posted on May 4, 2017 by W N 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

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Posted on April 18, 2016 by W N 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

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