The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert Guido Cavalcanty from whose name it takes

from whose name it takes its title… “Say”

flights show up on the radar and technology keeps track of desire

From Futurist and Surrealist experiment to harsh satire

the poems following them

These jokers – kidnappers

The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert Guido Cavalcanty from whose name it takesBeing appointed Dundee Makar (or City Laureate) implied that Bill Herbert might settle into middle age. He rented a at overlooking Broughty Ferry harbour to write about his home town in both its native tongues. Then within six months his much loved father died, and that civic idyll was thrown into crisis. Personal and political roles collided as referenda for Scottish independence and EU membership, then the US elections, signalled that the post war