Tag Archives: Tony Harrison

Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(I’ll try to post this four part piece daily across this week.) 2 One social phenomenon which illustrates this neatly is the late Soviet satiric mode of stiob*. According to Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak, who produced a study comparing stiob … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alexei Yurchak, Archilochus, Basil Bunting, Charlie Brooker, Dominic Boyer, Douglas Dunn, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, Isaiah Berlin, Kate Fox, Louis Theroux, Nathan Barley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seamus Heaney, stiob, Ted Hughes, The Colbert Report, The Day Today, Tony Harrison | Leave a comment

New Cartographies for Old

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(An edited version of this review appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Poetry London.) Sandeep Parmar, Eidolon (Shearsman); Sam Riviere, Kim Kardashian’s Wedding (Faber & Faber); Tony Williams, The Midlands (Nine Arches Press). These three collections in their different … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Adrian Mitchell, Agamemnon, Anastasia, Brecht, Christopher Logue, Clytemnestra, Dada, Droste Effect, Edward Hopper, Eliot, Euripides, Flarf, Francis Bacon, Geoff Hettersley, George Clooney, H.D., Harpo Marx, Helen Mort, Helen of Troy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian McMillan, Jack Woolley, Jerry Springer, Kim Kardashian, Lettrism, Michael Symmons Roberts, Noam Chomsky, Pareidolia, Paul Farley, Poetry London, Pound, Richard Dadd, Rimbaud, Sam Riviere, Sandeep Parmar, Simon Armitage, Situationism, Surrealism, Ted Hughes, The Archers, The Beats, The Language Poets, The Ruin, Tony Harrison, Tony Williams, W.H. Auden, Whitman, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth | 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

Root and Graft

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This piece was written in November 2004 in response to a request from Beeb2’s Culture Show for a take on the NE’s literary scene. It didn’t take. But it roughs out the idea that there is in the UK a cultural … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Alan Plater, Andrea Badenoch, Anne Stevenson, Basil Bunting, Connie Pickard, Debbie Taylor, Fred D’Aguiar, Gillian Allnutt, Jack Mapanje, Jackie Kay, Jo Shapcott, Julia Darling, Kitty Fitzgerald, Lee Hall, Linda France, Margaret Wilkinson, Morden Tower, New Writing North, Pat Barker, Penny Sumner, Peter Straughan, Sean O’Brien, Sid Chaplin, Tom Hadaway, Tony Harrison, Val MacDermid | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Tony Harrison

Stiob! It’s the New Unsettlement

New Cartographies for Old

Non-Standard (2)

Root and Graft

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