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A DURA Evening of Poetry at the Dundee Central Library, Part 3: W N Herbert reading
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.
Contents
- A DURA Evening of Poetry at the Dundee Central Library Part 3 W N Herbert reading
- Early life
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Poetry collections
- Literary criticism
- References
Early life
Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee. He was educated at Grove Academy and then studied Brasenose College, Oxford gaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 after completing a thesis on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid.
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. 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.
In September 2013, Herbert was appointed as Dundee's first makar.
Awards and honours
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.