W. N. Herbert

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Bill Herbert
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Born1961
Dundee, Scotland
Pen nameW. N. Herbert
Occupationpoet, academic
Language English and Scots
Nationality Scottish
Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford
Website
wnherbert.wordpress.com

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. [1]

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Early life

Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee. He was educated at Grove Academy and then studied at Brasenose College, Oxford gaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 after completing a thesis on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. [2]

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. [3] 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. [4]

In September 2013, Herbert was appointed as Dundee's first makar. [5]

Awards and honours

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. [6]

Books

Poetry collections

Literary criticism

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References

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