| Bill Herbert | |
| Pseudonym: | W. N. Herbert |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Dundee, Scotland |
| Occupation: | poet, academic |
| Language: | English and Scots |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Alma Mater: | Brasenose College, Oxford |
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W. N. Herbert, also known as Bill Herbert (born 1961) is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. He currently teaches at Newcastle University.
Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee. He was educated at Grove Academy and then studied at Brasenose College, Oxford gaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 after completing a thesis on the work of Hugh MacDiarmid.[1]
In 1994, he was one of 20 poets chosen by a panel of judges, as the New Generation in a promotion organised by the Poetry Society.[2] He was one of the writers involved in the Informationist poetry movement that emerged in Scotland in the 1990s.
He became a Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University.[3]
In September 2013, Herbert was appointed as Dundee's first makar.[4]
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.[5]