The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert The Poetry Business 'Whip smart

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poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand

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The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert The Poetry Business 'Whip smartBeing 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