Tag Archives: The Complaynt of Scotlande

Mourning and Monsters, 2

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Andy Jackson, Asif Khan, Auchenshoogle, Beanotown, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Cactusville, D'Arcy Thompson, Desperate Dan, Dr Patrick Blair, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Emily Dickinson, Florentina, Frankenstein, Gairfish, Grand Theft Auto, Grove Academy, Hector Boece, Informationism, Jim Stewart, Leonora Carrington, Mary Shelle, Mexico City, Minecraft, Monstro, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oor Wullie, Pinocchio, Robert Wedderburn, Strawberry Duck, The Broons, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Courier, The Dundee Whale, The McManus Galleries, The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The People's Friend, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Uncouthy, W.D. Latto, William McGonagall | Leave a 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, 3

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Bill Herbert

(I was struck while reading this review of Murakami’s latest book of short stories by the parallel between his ‘dialled down’ male protagonists, and the ‘hermless’ aspect of Dundee’s male population during the heyday of the jute industry, the ‘kettle-bilers’ … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics | Tagged A Satire of the Three Estates, Alain Chartier, Auguste Comte, biopolis, Dundee, Monologue Recreative, Murakami, Patrick Geddes, Quadrilogue invectif, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Rough Wooing, Volker Welter, Wedderburn | Leave a comment

Heroic/Homiletic (you choose) Addendum

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(Following on from the previous post, I’d expanded slightly on the enigmatic reference at the end to my own writing, but realised in that context it was digressive. Here, however, it’s part of the estranged brew of published, unpublished, retro- … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Catholicism, Crete, Dundee, Emmanuel Tzanes, Giorgios Chortatzis, Henry the Eighth, Heraklion, John Knox, Lutheranism, Mandelshtam, Montaigne, Robert Wedderburn, Shostakovich, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Ottoman Empire, The Rough Wooing, Venice, Vitzentos Kornaros | Leave a comment

Everything is Translation

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(Sometime toward the end of last year, I was chatting via email with Fiona Sampson about a translation project when I remarked that I’d been thinking for some time of translation as being at the heart of a broader range … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Creative Writing, David Cameron, Fiona Sampson, General Election 2015, Henry VIII, Mary, Poetics, Queen of Scots, Robert Wedderburn, Scottish poetry, Scottish Referendum, The Complaynt of Scotlande, translation | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: The Complaynt of Scotlande

Mourning and Monsters, 2

The Three Polis: Scots and Intralingual Translation

Close, 3

Heroic/Homiletic (you choose) Addendum

Everything is Translation

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