Narratives The Blue Road The Book 1984 / 1990 Narrative21 x 16 cm144 pagesHardcoverISBN10: 978-1851582792Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh On a trip along the north bank of the St Lawrence into Labrador, which formed the basis for his book The Blue Road, he came up with the concept of ‘geopoetics’ as a way of experiencing the world, expressing […]
Narratives Travels in the Drifting Dawn The Book 1989 Narrative144 pages, Hardcover, 22 x 16,5cmISBN 978-1851582402Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh Travels in the Drifting Dawn shows the intellectual nomad beginning his moves across territories and cultures. After passing through the London undergound of the sixties, then delving into the ground of his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland,
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Narratives Letters from Gourgounel The Book 1966 Narrative144 pagesISBN 978-0224610100Jonathan Cape Ltd, London At that time, the early Sixties, the Ardèche was part of what the sociologists were calling “the French desert”: outlying areas being deserted by the local populations for the big city. It was the kind of desertion I was after, but in
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Interviews Coast to coast Coast to coast — Interviews and Conversations 1985-1995 The Book 1996 Interviews22 x 15 cm127 pagesPaperbackISBN10: 0952933705Open World in association with Mythic Horse Press Coast to Coast presents a live mind and an original voice: Kenneth White.Since publication a few years back of some of his poem-books and waybooks, which have travelled
Geopoetics in brief… Geopoetics is a transdisciplinary theory-practice applicable to all the domains of life and research. Its aim is to re-establish and enrich the Humanity-Earth relationship long since deteriorated when not totally destroyed, with consequences now well documented on the ecological, psychological and intellectual plane. Geopoetics presents new existential perspectives in an open world.
Origins 1936 – 1963 « Right from the start he was a complete organism, bearing in himself the seeds of his future development. »Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on Pushkin, in A Writer’s Journal 1936 Born in Glasgow, south side of the river, in the notorious Gorbals district. Father, railway signalman, socially-minded, avid reader of books. Grandfather, musician,
Exhibition Created by the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1996, this exhibition was not only imported in France and translated, but also adapted and amplified at the initiative of Emmanuel Dall’Aglio, president of the association « The Friends and Readers of Kenneth White ». It was presented in France for the first time at
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