W. N. Herbert
Scottish poet
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W. N. Herbert FRSL, also known as Bill Herbert (born 1961) is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. He currently teaches at Newcastle University.[1]
Bill Herbert | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Education | Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Occupations | poet, academic |
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| Pen name | W. N. Herbert |
| Language | English and Scots |
| Website | wnherbert |
Early life
Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee. He was educated at Grove Academy and then studied at Brasenose College, Oxford gaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 after completing a thesis on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid.[2]
Career
In 1994, he was one of 20 poets chosen by a panel of judges, as the New Generation in a promotion organised by the Poetry Society.[3] He was one of the writers involved in the Informationist poetry movement that emerged in Scotland in the 1990s.
He became a Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University.[4]
In September 2013, Herbert was appointed as Dundee's first makar.[5]
Awards and honours
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.[6]
Books
Poetry collections
- Dundee Doldrums (1991)
- The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick (1994)
- Cabaret McGonagall (1996)
- The Laurelude (1998)
- The Big Bumper Book of Troy (2002)
- Bad Shaman Blues (2006) [7]
- Three Men on the Metro, with Andy Croft and Paul Summers, Five Leaves (2009)[8]
- Omnesia (2013) [9]
- The Wreck of the Fathership (2020)
Literary criticism
- To Circumjack MacDiarmid (1992)
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