Tag Archives: William Wordsworth

Origami Posada

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Bill Herbert

On Saturday I was in one of my favourite weekend haunts, the Crown Posada: a narrow, high-ceilinged, magnificent preservation of the Victorian pub as secular place of gathering if not worship – all stained glass, globe lights, long banquettes, dark … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Crown Posada, Ezra Pound, Ian Duncan Smith, James Joyce, John Keats, Kublai Khan, Procrastination, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Excursion, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

Interview for Gentleman

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Bill Herbert

(Gentleman is an Indian magazine: about ten years ago, my old pal from Kolkatta, Debanjan Chakrabarti, wrote up this interview based on my last trip to India. I was just getting some poems together for my next trip — next … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Barry MacSweeney, Bertold Brecht, Chennai, Don Paterson, Edmond Jabes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Donne, Kaalbaishakhi, Kathleen Jamie, Kolkatta, Norman MacCaig, Santiniketan, Sean O'Brien, Stan Laurel, Tagore, Ted Hughes, William McGonnagall, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian | 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

unglish for all!

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This review of Kinsella, Hartley Williams and Lumsden appeared in Poetry London in (probably) Winter 2005. On reflection, it was a near-perfect triumvirate of writers to give me, as each of them illustrates some aspect of what I think of … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Charles Bernstein, Chopin, Coleridge, Dan Dare, Harold Bloom, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.H. Prynne, John Ashbery, John Clare, John Clare or Robert Burns, John Hartley Williams, John Kinsella, Ken Smith, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Perloff, Peter Didsbury, Poetry London, Robert Burns, Roddy Lumsden, Ted Hughes, Tomaz Salamun, William Wordsworth, Yang Lian | Leave a comment

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unglish for all!

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