Born in Dundee in 1961, W.N. Herbert was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. His doctorate on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid was published as To Circumjack MacDiarmid (1992). He returned to Scotland from Oxford in 1993, taking writer-in-residence posts in Dumfries and Galloway, and then in Moray, before becoming Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Newcastle […]

Essential Mourning: David Hackbridge-Johnson on W.N. Herbert’s ‘The Wreck of the Fathership’ — The High Window