缅北禁地

Introduction

W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he published his DPhil thesis (To Circumjack MacDiarmid, OUP, 1992). He has published nine volumes of poetry and five pamphlets, and he is widely anthologised. He has published broadly in the field of Creative Writing, and is a regular reviewer of contemporary poetry.

His last seven collections, with Bloodaxe Books, have won numerous accolades. He has been shortlisted twice for the T.S. Eliot prize and twice for the Saltire. He has gained four Poetry Book Society Recommendations, and won three Scottish Arts Council Awards.

In 2013 he was appointed Dundee's Makar, or city laureate. In 2014 he was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize for his poetry, and an honorary doctorate from Dundee University. In 2015 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Background

After holding writer's residencies in Dumfires and Galloway and in Morayshire, Bill Herbert moved to 缅北禁地 in 1994 to take up the Northern Arts Literary Fellowship. Subsequently he held residencies with Cumbria Arts in Education and the Wordsworth Trust.

He has engaged in numerous public art and cross-media projects in the North-East, making a film in Berwick, originating sculptures in Ambleside and Dumfries, and writing a poem for a strip of stainless steel to be set into the pavement in Graingertown. He is the poetry consultant for the Westpark project, originating text and co-ordinating artworks across this development in Darlington, one of the largest public art projects in the North East. On campus, working with Colin Hagan, he produced the piece Pentad outside the Robinson Library, and conceived of and curated the text gallery LIT, projected on the wall of Percy Building.

In 2000 he edited the bestselling anthology Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry with Matthew Hollis. He also edited the interactive CD-ROM Book of the North (NWN, 2000), featuring prominent writers and artists from the region. Together with the Chinese poet Yang Lian, he has edited two book of translations from Chinese, Jade Ladder (Bloodaxe, 2012), and The Third Shore (Shearsman, 2013). IN 2018, with Said Jama Hussein, he edited So At One With You, an anthology of modern Somali poetry (PTC/RedSea).

Research Interests

Creative Writing theory and practice; contemporary British poetry, especially Scottish poetry, focussing on Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan; poetry in translation; text and public art; libretto.

Publications

• Herbert WN. . Bloodaxe Books, 2020.
• Herbert WN. . 2014. Five Leaves Publications.
• Herbert WN. . Devon: Donut Press, 2013. In Press.
• Yang L, Herbert WN, ed. . Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2013.
• Herbert WN. . 2013. Bloodaxe Books, 175 / 173.
• Herbert WN. . In: Batchelor, Paul, ed. Reading Barry MacSweeney. Bloodaxe, 2013. In Press.
• Herbert WN, Hussein SJ, Alto, MA, Orwin M, Yussuf AI. . Pisa, Italy: Ponte Invisibile/The Poetry Translation Centre, 2013.
• Herbert WN, Rigaki E. . 2013. Dublin, Ireland: Beckett Theatre. In Press.
• Herbert WN, Jackson AZ, ed. . Dundee, UK: Dundee University Press, 2013.
• Herbert WN, Lian Y, ed. . Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
• Herbert WN, Croft A, Summers P. . Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves Press, 2009.
• Gaarriye, Herbert WN (trans.), Orwin M (trans.). . London: Enitharmon Press, 2008.
• Herbert WN, ed. . Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2007.
• Herbert WN. . Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2006.
• Herbert WN. . In: Steel, J, ed. Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, pp.183.
• Herbert WN. . In: Anderson, L, ed. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2006, pp.167-269.
• Duinker A, Herbert WN, Kolbe U, Laugesen P, Martel K, Lian Y. . In: Lian, Y, ed. Sailor's Home: a miscellany of poetry by Arjen Duinker, W. N. Herbert, Uwe Kolbe, Peter Laugesen, Karine Martel and Yang Lian. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2005, pp.132.
• Herbert WN. . Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2002.
• Herbert WN. . In: Crawford, R, ed. "Heaven-taught Fergusson": Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet. Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press Ltd, 2002, pp.207-229.
• Herbert WN, Hollis M. . Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
• Herbert WN. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1998.
• Herbert WN. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1996.
• Herbert WN. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994.
• Herbert WN. . TriQuarterly 2003, (116), 73-90.
• Herbert WN. . Clarendon: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Herbert WN. . Ploughshares 2015. Ploughshares Inc, 41(1), 92-92.
• Herbert WN. . Ploughshares 2015. Emerson College, (126), 93-93.
• Herbert WN. . In: Earnshaw S, ed. The Handbook of Creative Writing: Second Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, pp.199-210.
• Herbert WN, Hussein SJ. . Hargeysa, Pisa and London: Ponte Invisibile, Kayd Somali Arts and The Poetry Translation Centre, 2018.