Tag Archives: Tom Leonard

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

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

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

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 →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Alan Buckley, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Reid, Craig Raine, Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Donne, Martianism, Norman MacCaig, The Apocalyptics, Tom Leonard, W.S. Graham, Zen Calvinism | 1 Comment

Blurbalicious

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Bill Herbert

The art of the poetry blurb is such a particular thing, and, as I’m asked to perform it with increasing frequency, I find myself wondering whether or not I do so from a sufficiently principled stance. Below are the most … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged A.B. Jackson, Alasdair Gray, Bloodaxe Books, Clark Ashton Smith, David Kinloch, Edwin Morgan, Elvis, Freight, Harry Giles, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pascal, Russell Jones, Tom Leonard, Tonguit | 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

Sweary Words & Difficult Understanding

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Bill Herbert

(An orthographic discussion on Facebook about a localised sweary word in, I think, east coast Scots, led me to think some more about a few of the points I meditate on regularly as a writer who works in a kind … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged D. Philips, Dundee, Dundonian, Father Jack, Gaelic, Lochee, Scots, Tom Leonard | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Tom Leonard

Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve

Three notes: 3, on Scots

A note on MacCaig

Blurbalicious

Non-Standard (2)

Sweary Words & Difficult Understanding

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