Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 4

Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He published numerous works of poetry and prose, with volumes and essays in French as well as English. His work has also been translated into several languages. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, in Europe and Scotland, including the Grand Prix du Rayonnement Français by the Académie française for his work as a whole (1985), the Édouard Glissant prize from the University of Paris VIII for his ‘openness to the cultures of the world’ (2004) and Prix de poésie Alain Bosquet for Les Archives du Littoral, a bilingual poetry collection (2011). White held honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the Open University and was an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy.In 1989 he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics to promote further research into the cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary field of study which he had been developing during the previous decade. It has since produced six Cahiers de Géopoétique (journals) in French, publishing a range of work on geopoetics from throughout the world. Geopoetics Centres have since been set up in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Quebec, New Caledonia and France.His publications in English include, Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath (2013), The Wanderer and his Charts (2004), Open World: The Collected Poems 1960-2000 (2003) and House of Tides (2000). He lived on the north coast of Brittany.Cairns Craig is Professor Emeritus in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His most recent books are The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture, Independence (2018) and Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death (2019), both published by Edinburgh University Press. He was the general editor of the four volume History of Scottish Literature published by Aberdeen University Press in 1987, and was involved in editing the magazines Cencrastus and Radical Scotland in the 1980s. Other books on Scottish subjects include The Modern Scottish Novel (1999) and Intending Scotland (2009).

• A Note on the Texts THE BLUE ROADPreface1. The Moon in Montreal2. Quebec City Flash3. Route 175 North4. Chicoutimi, Couscous and Old White Whisky5. The Walk to Pointe Bleue6. Eskimo Joe7. White Night8. The Wind at Seven Islands9. On the Coast10. Jean-Baptiste11. The Big Dance at Mingan12. The End of the Road13. The Train to Schefferville14. The Shaman and the Lighthouse-keeper15. Calling Carcajou16. At Indian House Lake17. The Goose Bay Companions18. Arctic Chronicles19. The Naked Earth20. Ungava21. Labrador, or the Waking DreamGUIDO’S MAPPreface1. Tropic of Saturn2. The Crows of the Englischer Garten3. The Latest News from Brussels4. Blue Smoke on a White Cliff5. An Irish Jaunt6. That Old Bilbao Moon7. The Lights and Shadows of Galicia8. On the Heights of Aurora9. Between Byzantium and a Bog10. The Trieste Passage11. A Whistle and a Stone12. Around the Black Mountain13. Quiet Days in Pula14. Letter from Stockholm15. Clandestine Return to Native ShoresTHE WINDS OF VANCOUVER1. The Hour of the Owl2. The Great Gateway3. A Story Written on the Winds4. Renaissance Rock5. Inventing an Itinerary6. An Ancestor who Passed this Way7. The Opening Space8. Salutations to the Ice-Chief9. Capital City Talk10. A Microcosm of the Human Condition11. At the Top of White Pass12. In the Backlands of Sitka13. Traces and Tracks on Kayak Island14. Across the Kenai15. Homer’s Town16. Aboard the Snowbird