Books by W. N. Herbert

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality.

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality.

A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel; Othermoor, a cubist version of the North; and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection