Bloodaxe Books | W.N. Herbert: two poems from The Wreck of the Fathership @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
W.N. (Bill) Herbert is a highly versatile poet who writes both in English and Scots. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University and lives in a lighthouse overlooking the River Tyne at North Shields. He was Dundee's inaugural Makar from 2013 to 2018. Here he reads two poems, ‘Fish-fight at the Basilica Cisterns’ and (in Scots) ‘June Dolphin’, from his collection The Wreck of the Fathership (Bloodaxe Books, 2020). This video was made in March 2015 at Newcastle University by Neil Astley for the transatlantic edition of the US journal Ploughshares which he edited. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-wreck-of-the-fathership-1234
W.N. (Bill) Herbert is a highly versatile poet who writes both in English and Scots. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University and lives in a lighthouse overlooking the River Tyne at North Shields. He was Dundee's inaugural Makar from 2013 to 2018. Here he reads two poems, ‘Fish-fight at the Basilica Cisterns’ and (in Scots) ‘June Dolphin’, from his collection The Wreck of the Fathership (Bloodaxe Books, 2020). This video was made in March 2015 at Newcastle University by Neil Astley for the transatlantic edition of the US journal Ploughshares which he edited. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-wreck-of-the-fathership-1234
