Tag Archives: W.S. Graham

Phorgotography, 5

Posted on May 2, 2022 by W N Herbert

Next near-subliminal Facebook flashcard was from Depths of Lockdown. This was the same image I’d picked out to illustrate a point about Creative Procrastination in my piece for NCLA’s New Defences of Poetry, a website-that-shoulda-been-a-book edited by David O’Hanlon-Alexandra, so … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Couch to 5K, Creative Procrastination, David O'Hanlon-Alexandra, Facebook, Hanami, New Defences of Poetry, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The Blue Crevasse, The Ephemeral, W.S. Graham | 1 Comment

Phorgotography, 3

Posted on July 11, 2021 by W N Herbert

vii this is enough(This is another instance of Facebook popping up a few photos at random, me finding myself responding more thoughtfully to them than Ι’d expected – ie being a bit floored by the coincidence – only not to … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Anhui, Beach Terrace, Broughty Ferry, Covid, Crete, Dundee Makar, Knossos, Michael and Margaret Snow, Nikola Madzirov, The Labyrinth, The Street of Knives, The Tay, Tiananman, Tianjin, W.S. Graham, Yang Lian | 2 Comments

G. Gregory Smith’s Gargoyle, or, Several Scottish Voices Gathered Together in Pittenweem and Grooving with Robert Wyatt

Posted on May 10, 2021 by W N Herbert

Chic Murray – I love this outburst of Greenockian absurdism, particularly the moment where Chic claims he’s gone wrong, so runs through the whole poem again, again emphasising both its almost complete lack of sense and its entirely coherent structure. … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Adam Boulton, Alfreda Benge, Bill Forsyth, Chic Murray, Don’t Look Now, Fred Frith, G. Gregory Smith, Govan, Greenock, Gregory’s Girl, Helen Kidd, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ivor Cutler, Nicholas Roeg, Pink Floyd, Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom, Sky News, Spike Milligan, Stand Up and Spit, Syd Barrett, The Caledonian Antiszyzygy, The Velvet Underground, Tim Wells, Ummagumma, Val McDermid, Van der Graaf Generator, Venus in Furs, W.S. Graham, William McGonagall, Y’Hup | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by W N Herbert

(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy | Leave a comment

Two Poems for Tom Raworth and an Instant Elegy

Posted on February 28, 2017 by W N Herbert

I’m indebted to Peter Manson who, on my posting a short elegy on Tumblr for Tom Raworth, suggested I reproduce here two poems he, Peter, and his co-editor Robin Purves, first published in Object Permanence, no. 3 (Sept 94). These … Continue reading →

Posted in sparrow mumbling, xenochronicity | Tagged Aquinas, Edwin Morgan, Eric Mottram, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, George Roberts, Gwynneth Lewis, Heavy Light, Helen Kidd, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, Joe Kelleher, John Ashbery, Keith Jebb, Language Poetry, Lèvre de Poche, Machiavelli, Mick Imlah, Oxford Covered Market, Oxford Poetry, Oxford University Poetry Society, Peter Manson, Reality Studios, Robert Creeley, Robin Purves, Tom Raworth, W.S. Graham | 1 Comment

Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve

Posted on January 28, 2017 by W N 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

Quick notes on editing ‘New Boots’

Posted on September 19, 2016 by W N Herbert

(Eek, it’s been a while since I posted here! Still struggling with the unresolvable first section of my Mexican post, with the actual intro for New Boots and Pantisocracies just gone to the publisher, this is a few notes I … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Biographia Literaria, Choman Hardi, Ezra Pound, Fiona Moore, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lyrical Ballads, Marx, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oscar Wilde, Poetry Book Fair, Ron Villanueva, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sophie Mayer, The Smith Commission, Venus and Adonis, W.S. Graham | Leave a comment

Portrait of an Informationist, (or, The Kind of Found Poetry I Want)

Posted on May 21, 2016 by W N Herbert

(About 11 months ago, I did one of those Facebook ‘challenge’ chains – post a poem each day for five days; challenge five others to do the same – which are just an excuse to share new work. Most of … Continue reading →

Posted in sparrow mumbling | Tagged Carcanet, Erik Satie, Helen Tookey, Hugh MacDiarmid, Informationism, London Review of Books, Nick Richardson, Peter McCarey, The Kind of PoetryI I Want, The Missel-Child, Virginia Woolf, W.S. Graham | Leave a comment

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Posted on April 18, 2016 by W N Herbert

Like several Scottish and Northern cities which have struggled with their changing identity – are they, as formerly, principally provincial conglomerations, or can they become something more, something capable of rebalancing the stacked centre/region dichotomy? – Dundee has performed and … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alice, Cox's Stack, Czech Republic, D.M. Brown's, Darlington, Draffens, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Durham, Edinburgh, Edwin Morgan, Elgin, Flann O'Brien, Frieda Kahlo, Gairfish, General Monck, Groucho's, Grove Academy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Hull, Informationist Dundee, Jackie Kay, John Davidson, Kolkata, Lewis Carroll, Liz Lochhead, Mennie's, Mexico City, Michael Marra, Monty Python, Newcaslte, Noctes Ambrosianae, Pedro Serrano, Richard Price, Royal Arch, Royal Society of Literature, Scots language, Shanghai, Situationism, Speedwell Tavern, Stirling, Tay Whale, Taybridge Bar, The Goons, The McManus, The Overgate, The Pillars, The Ruin, The White Knight, Through the Looking Glass, Trades Kirk, Virtual Scotland, W.S. Graham, Whaleback City, William McGonagall, Wordsworth Trust | 1 Comment

A note on MacCaig

Posted on December 31, 2015 by W N 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

Tag Archives: W.S. Graham

Phorgotography, 5

Phorgotography, 3

G. Gregory Smith’s Gargoyle, or, Several Scottish Voices Gathered Together in Pittenweem and Grooving with Robert Wyatt

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Two Poems for Tom Raworth and an Instant Elegy

Omnisatire and the Ragged Sleeve

Quick notes on editing ‘New Boots’

Portrait of an Informationist, (or, The Kind of Found Poetry I Want)

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

A note on MacCaig

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