Tag Archives: Norman MacCaig

Three notes: 2, Secondariness

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This second note, happily, is on the idea of secondariness – again an idea mentioned in passing in relation to MacCaig. As mentioned by Richard Watt back on good ol’ Facebook, this certainly owes something to Deleuze and Guattari’s idea … Continue reading →

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Three notes: 1, on metaphor

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(I have three notes I’d like to post as a way of clearing decks before the year gets any further. Each of them requires further elaboration which in turn requires me being able or willing to get into my office, … Continue reading →

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A note on MacCaig

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This brief note arose from a Facebook chat with Alan Buckley, in which I suppose I was outlining something of what I think of as Secondariness – how certain writers, indeed certain literatures, are perceived as outside the frame of … Continue reading →

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Interview with the Gumpire

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Bill Herbert

(This is the text of an email interview a student conducted with me this April for a project – I didn’t know them and, while they gave permission for their questions to be reproduced here, they preferred not to give … Continue reading →

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The Nay I Know Not Seamless Garment Garment

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Bill Herbert

An eminently sensible question from a former student, ‘Do you have different blogs for a reason? Maybe you should just choose one and stick to it?’ has made me go over this old niggle from a new angle. Whether we’re … Continue reading →

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The Academy of Errors?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Bill Herbert

News of the death of the very playful, very questioning ‘scul?tor’ George Wylie has made me think again about this wry, almost Socratic strain in the Scottish mind, as evidenced by figures as diverse as Wylie himself, Ivor Cutler, Chic … Continue reading →

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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 →

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A Turbulent Makar

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading →

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