The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert Guido Cavalcanty to buildings both exotic and

to buildings both exotic and eccentric

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

the poems following them

He spent just over three weeks in a coma

from whose name it takes its title… “Say”

The Wreck of the Fathership by W N Herbert Guido Cavalcanty to buildings both exotic andBeing 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