W.N. Herbert, Author at শুদ্ধস্বর

W.N. Herbert

W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, lives in North Shields, and pines for Emprosneros in Crete. He has published nine volumes of poetry, most often with Bloodaxe, and five pamphlets, including Murder Bear (Donut Press, 2013), which won a Saboteur Award. Speaking of prize culture, he has been shortlisted for the Eliot, the Saltire, and the Forward, but not once for the books he loves best - The Big Bumper Book of Troy, Omnesia, and The Wreck of the Fathership - which to this day have never been read by a living soul. He has gained four PBS Recommendations and three Scottish Arts Council Awards, plus a Cholmondeley Prize. He was first Wordsworth Fellow at Grasmere and first Dundee Makar, (city laureate) and in his brain he still is. Instead, he is currently Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His Unselected Poems (yes, really) is forthcoming from Smokestack Books.

A Dream of Vending Machines

By W.N. Herbert / Issue 37, Surrealist Poetry, Magazine / 17 minutes of reading / A Dream of Vending Machines, W.N. Herbert

While others have dreams of a unified field theory or of the gesamtkunstwerk, I tend to have dreams of vending machines. Not exactly and only the machines, of course, more the interzone-like territory in which vending machines might appear – that space between airport, station, cathedral, library, gallery, mall, and hotel; that plaza, campus, park

W.N. Herbert

A Dream of Vending Machines

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