Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats

From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(If you felt the previous section jumped around a bit, you’ll love this, which tries to get from Nietzsche to Carol Ann Duffy in as few paragraphs as possible. Again the argument is trying to favour metaphor’s capacity for comparison … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, Anti-Oedipus, Apollonian, Aristotle, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Isherwood, Coleridge, Creative Writing, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation, Dionysian, Edwin Morgan, Félix Guattari, Fiona Samoson, Freud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gilles Deleuze, Gorbachov, Hesiod, Humphrey Carpenter, John Betjeman, Julian Jaynes, Keats, Lenin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Oedipalisation, Plato, Poetry, Putin, Richard Hugo, Rimbaud, Robert Lowell, Socrates, Stalin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, The Birth of Tragedy, The Cooked and the Raw, The Poet Laureate, The Poetics, The Republic, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wordsworth, Yeltsin | Leave a comment

Watching for Dolphins

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Bill Herbert

What does it mean, beyond the simple delight at your own good luck, to look out of your window at the River Tay, and see dolphins swimming past? Or, as happened to me once last year, to pick up the … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, dundee makar | Tagged Broughty Ferry, Captain Scott, Charles Olson, David Constantine, dolphins, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Tayport, Thatcherism, The Discovery, W.B. Yeats | 2 Comments

Embodying delight (some formulae)

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Bill Herbert

Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, The Gallery Press, 79pp; Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet, 74pp; Lynne Wycherley, North Flight, Shoestring Press, 70pp. There are a number of now quite stately premisses on which we still rely when we come to … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alan Gillis, Charles Darwin, Colette Bryce, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, George Mackay Brown, Jen Hadfield, John Clare, Louis MacNiece, Lynne Wycherley, ohn Burnside, Paul Muldoon, Pauline Stainer, Poetry London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrissey, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats

From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3

Watching for Dolphins

Embodying delight (some formulae)

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