Author name: Site Kenneth White

Poetry Handbook for the Diamond Country Collected Shorter Poems 1960-1990 The Book 1990 Poetry17.15 x 22.23 cm192 pagesHardcoverISBN10: 978-1851582846Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh. Preface These poems were written around the world, from Scotland out. The earliest are from The Cold Wind of Dawn (London, 1966) and The most Difficult Area (London, 1968). Thereafter, they come from the French […]

Poetry The Bird Pass Collected Longer Poems 1964-1988 The Book 1989 Poetry16.51 x 22.23 cm240 pagesHardcoverISBN10: 9781851582457Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh. Beginning in the floating world of Hong Kong, between West and East, this travel book moves into the South China Sea, to Macao, Taiwan, Thailand and Japan, where it follows a journey from Tokyo up through

Poetry The Most Difficult Area The Book 1968 Poetry24,5 x 16,8 cm43 pagesSoftcoverISBN10: 978-0206615031London: Cape Goliard. Kenneth White believes with Nietzsche that civilization’s crying need is ‘temporary isolation, a kind of deepest concentration on oneself and self-recovery — not to avoid temptations, but obligations’. He has avoided the great thoroughfares of modern life and lived, simply,

Poetry Wild Coal The Book 1963 Poetry22,8 x 16,5 cm64 pagesPaperbackClub des étudiants d’anglais (de la Sorbonne), Paris. It was in 1963 that Wild Coal, Kenneth White’s first book, was published, a booklet of poetry in English published in Paris. The poet, then 27 years old, is a lecturer of English at the Sorbonne and he

Poetry The Cold Wind of Dawn Travels in South-East Asia and the North Pacific The Book 1966 Poetry22,8 x 16,5 cm64 pagesHardcoverISBN10: 978-0224610117Jonathan Cape, London. Beginning in the floating world of Hong Kong, between West and East, this travel book moves into the South China Sea, to Macao, Taiwan, Thailand and Japan, where it follows a

Narratives Between Two Worlds: Autobiography The Collected Works of Kenneth White Volume 3 The Book 2025 Narrative23,4 x 15,6 cm288 pagesHarcoverISBN10: 9781399531351Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Explores the life of one of Scotland’s most important poet-thinkers as told by himself. Kenneth White achieved fame in his adopted country of France as a poet, essayist and travel writer.

Narratives Underground to Otherground The Collected Works of Kenneth White Volume 1 – Incandescent Limbo – Letters from Gourgounel – Travels in the Drifting Dawn The Book 2021 Narrative23,4 x 15,6 cm328 pagesHarcover (2021), Paperback (2023)ISBN10: 9781474481298 & 9781399511124Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating

Narratives House of Tides Travels from Orkney to Rangiroa The Book 2004 Narrative21,6 x 14 cm256 pagesPaperbackISBN10: 978-978-1904598145Polygon, Edinburgh An initial mapping of this book might say that it goes from the Orkneys to Polynesia via Scandinavia and the Baltic regions, the Iberian peninsula, and North America. But it’s impossible to sum up the diverse pathways

Narratives House of Tides Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West The Book 2000 Narrative21 x 14 cm243 pagesPaperbackISBN10: 978-9780748662791Polygon, Edinburgh Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author’s self-imposed exile on the Breton

Narratives Pilgrim of the Void Travels in South-East Asia and the North Pacific The Book 1992 Narrative22,8 x 16,5 cm250 pagesHardcoverISBN10: 978-1851584734Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh Beginning in the floating world of Hong Kong, between West and East, this travel book moves into the South China Sea, to Macao, Taiwan, Thailand and Japan, where it follows a journey