Tag Archives: Walt Whitman

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

The Three Ms: Mammoth, Minerva, and Merkin

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Bill Herbert

Mark Doty, Deep Lane (Cape); Frances Leviston, Disinformation (Picador); Christopher Reid, The Curiosities (Faber). (Three collections reviewed for the June issue of Literary Review, here with – slightly – critical notes restored.) Mark Doty’s ninth collection displays his customary gifts … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Auden, Bath, Blake, Byron, Christopher Reid, Frances Leviston, George Herbert, Gogol, Jackson Pollock, Mark Doty, Walt Whitman, Yeats | 1 Comment

hotching in heteronyms

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This is evidently a review I did, possibly for Poetry Review, certainly back in January 2002. I like Pessoa a lot more than it would appear to suggest, so I was talking more about contemporary lazy smartnesses.) Ah, heteronyms, those … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alberto De Caiero, Alvaro De Campos, Bernard Soares, Emily Dickinson, Fernando Pessoa, Giorgio Morandi, Horace, Jonathan Griffin, Rene Magritte, Ricardo Reis, Richard Zenith, Vicente Guedes, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

Holocaust Memorial Day Reading

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This piece was written in February 2005 for the Blinking Eye website. I was judging their competition, and they asked me for something for the site. Every year for the last three years the writers associated with Newcastle University — … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Bennett Hogg, Cynthia Fuller, Duska Radoslavjevic-Heaney, Gillian Allnutt, Holocaust Memorial Day, HOmer, Jack Mapanje, Julia Darling, Lewis Watson, Linda France, Margaret Wilkinson, Newcastle University, School of English, Sean O'Brien, Statius, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Walt Whitman

Pies, Poute, and the Poetry Mills of Victorian Dundee

The Three Ms: Mammoth, Minerva, and Merkin

hotching in heteronyms

Holocaust Memorial Day Reading

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