SONAQs (Seldom Or Never Asked Questions)

Gairnet is the on-line version of an obscure Scottish poetry magazine called Gairfish. About five years ago it was doing alright in the sense of having a hundred or so subscribers, but then its editor, the poet WN Herbert, became too lazy/ busy to keep at the unrewarding slog. Eventually some good supernatural beings called trAce suggested he construct an unsteady monument to his own ego on the Net.

(They've archived the original site, should you want to see this done even more badly than it is at present.)

What does Gairnet do?

It gathers together WN Herbert's literary and extra-literary activities, complete with links to other bodies he has infected, and things he purports to have an interest in.

What activities (yawn) are these?

Couldn't you summon a tad more enthusiasm?

We'll ask the questions, you just get on with the answers.

Okay. WN Herbert has done various collaborations with other artists across the North of England, none of which are recorded in his somewhat copious lists of publications (which obviously includes very small pamphlets). He thought this might be one way of presenting them. His collaborators include a stained glass artist, a couple of sculptors, a musician, a film-maker, and various writers and artists and computer people.

What (we can't believe we're asking this) are his interests?

Well, aside from Scottish poetry in particular, and contemporary British poetry and fiction in general, he whiles away his lustrums watching Italian football, reading US "underground" comics, watching films by Laurel and Hardy, among others, and listening to various bands and individuals he considers odd enough to figure in his somewhat rarefied scheme of things.

Can we go and look for interesting sites now?

Fuck off by all means.

edited by WN Herbert for Idiot Productions