You have arrived, O weary and unfortunate traveller, at the
homepage of W.N. Herbert,
Poet and
Tragedian
. From here you can access his
elderly websites and his wannabe-eldritch blogs. Why
so Byzantine and straggly? As of April
2008, he's still updating the Gairnet site,
and hasn't added links yet from Franks Casket to more current
issues. Sheesh. If this sounds at all interesting (and frankly how can
it?) please keep checking for 'progress'.
Facebook |
This, due
to ease of access and narcissistic insecurity, is where
most of his current online activity takes place, though hardly in
an informative manner. Relentlessly trivial, it is a piercing
insight into the sub-intellectual life of a so-called
contemporary poet and educator. At least in the old days
substance abuse offered some kind of excuse, but now,
stamina-less, enlarged, and largely hairless, it's like
watching a homeless crab try on soggy matchboxes and rusted
tin-cans: 'Are you my new shell?' 'Are you my new
shell?' |
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A blog which now contains a
fair few entries and some randomly-captioned photos. But not
apparently about the important things folk are therefore left to assume must be happening
in his 'life'. Not worth visiting unless you
have a lot (and do we mean a lot) of curiosity about his
disorganised ramblings, but it's getting better. Just not all
the time. |
space of bill |
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Blll in
MySpace |
This almost entirely
supernumerary website was set up to facilitate communication
between the poets taking part in the Poet to Poet project (see
'space of bill' for details), so he didn't take what was
on it seriously and filled it up with gibberish
inadvertently giving birth to the entity 'Blll'. Also home of
The
Chimericon,
an extremely ephemeral blog devoted to composite animals
he encounters in his sleep (hopefully), and other
epiphenomena. |
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A personal site which appears to be
lobster-obsessed, but which really chronicles his less recent activities and
interests (not a lot of people want to know these). Unlike the sites
listed above, it actually does contain useful biographical and bibliographic info.This supercedes
the trAce version and is upgraded once
in a blue lobster. |
Gairnet |
Franks
Casket |
This was a
poetry webzine created for the School of
English Literature Language & Linguistics at
Newcastle University, where he now professes to lecture. It represents
the School's excellent Creative Writing programme, but he once deluded
himself it could also be 'representative' of the poetry scene
in the North of England. It has subsequently been succeeded by
student-edited editions, but currently awaits
reanimation on the frozen slab of a secret
former icehouse.
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