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Scottish poet, academic and writer (1936–2023)

Kenneth White (28 April 1936 – 11 August 2023) was a Scottish poet, academic and writer.

Kenneth White was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland, but he spent his childhood and adolescence at Fairlie near Largs on the Ayrshire coast, where his father worked as a railway signalman. White obtained a double first in French and German from the University of Glasgow. From 1959 until 1963, White studied at the University of Paris, where he obtained a state doctorate. White purchased "Gourgounel", an old farm in the Ardèche region of France, where he could spend the summers and autumns studying and working on what would become Letters from Gourgounel. Kenneth White lived on the north coast of Brittany with his wife Marie Claude, who is a translator and photographer. He died there on 11 August 2023, at the age of 87.

Wild Coal. Paris: Club des Étudiants d’Anglais (Sorbonne). (1963)
En toute candeur. Paris: Mercure de France. (1964)
The Cold Wind of Dawn. London: Jonathan Cape. (1966)
The Most Difficult Area. London: Cape Goliard. (1968)
Scènes d'un monde flottant. Lausanne: Alfred Eibel Editeur. (1976)
Terre de diamant. Lausanne: Alfred Eibel Editeur. (1977)
Mahamudra. Paris: Mercure de France. (1979)
Ode fragmentée à la Bretagne blanche. Bordeaux: Willim Blake & Co. (1980)
Le Grand Rivage. Paris: Nouveau Commerce. (1980)
Le dernier voyage de Brandan. Paris: Les Presses d'Aujourd'hui. (1981)
Atlantica. Paris: Grasset. (1986)
L'anorak du goéland. Rouen: L’Instant Perpétuel. (1986)
The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1989)
Handbook for the Diamond Country, Collected Shorter Poems 1960–1990. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1990)
Les Rives du silence. Paris: Mercure de France. (1998)
Limites et marges. Paris: Mercure de France. (2000)
Open World: Collected Poems 1960–2000. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2003)
Le passage extérieur. Paris: Mercure de France. (2005)
Les archives du littoral. Paris: Mercure de France. (2011)

Letters from Gourgounel. London: Jonathan Cape. (1966)
Les Limbes Incandescentes. Paris: Denoël. (1976)
Derives. Paris: Denoël. (1978)
L'Ecosse. Paris: Flammarion. (1980)
Le Visage du Vent d'Est. Paris: Les Presses d'Aujourd'hui. (1980)
La Route Bleue. Paris: Grasset. (1983)
Travels in the Drifting Dawn. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1989)
Les Cygnes sauvages. Paris: Grasset. (1990)
Pilgrim of the Void. Edinburgh and London: Mainstream. (1992)
House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2000)
Across the Territories. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2004)
Le Rôdeur des confins. Paris: Albin Michel. (2006)
La Carte de Guido. Paris: Albin Michel. (2011)
The Fundamental Field (with Jeff Malpas). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2021).

The Tribal Dharma. Carmarthen: Unicorn Bookshop. (1975)
The Coast opposite Humanity. Carmarthen: Unicorn Bookshop. (1975)
Approches du Monde Blanc. Paris: Nouveau Commerce. (1976)
The Life technique of John Cowper Powys. Swansea: Galloping Dog Press. (1978)
Segalen, Théorie et Pratique du Voyage. Lausanne: Alfred Eibel. (1979)
La Figure du dehors. Paris: Grasset. (1982)
Letter from North Armorica, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed. ), Cencrastus No. 16, Spring 1984, pp. 2 – 4,
Une apocalypse tranquille. Paris: Grasset. (1985)
Zen and the Birds of Kentigern, in Parker, Geoff (ed. ), Cencrastus No. 23, Summer 1986, pp. 3 – 7,
L'esprit Nomade. Paris: Grasset. (1987)
Le Poète Cosmographe". Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. (1987)
Le Monde d'Antonin Artaud". Bruxelles: Complexe. (1989)
Le Chant du Grand Pays". Nimes: Terriers (1989)
Hokusai ou l'Horizon Sensible. Paris: Terrain Vague. (1990)
Le Plateau de l’albatros: Introduction à la géopoétique. Paris: Grasset. (1994)
Le Lieu et la Parole. Cleguer: Editions du Scorff. (1997)
Une Strategie Paradoxale". Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. (1998)
Les Finisterres de l'Esprit. Cleguer: Editions du Scorff. (1998)
On Scottish Ground. Edinburgh: Polygon. (1998)
Le Champ du Grand Travail". Bruxelles: Didier Devillez. (2003)
The Wanderer and His Charts. Edinburgh: Polygon. (2004)
L'Ermitage des Brumes. Paris: Dervy. (2005)
On the Atlantic Edge. Sandstone. (2006)
Dialogue avec Deleuze. Paris: Isolato. (2007)
Les Affinités Extremes. Paris: Albin Michel. (2009)

Coast to Coast. Glasgow, Open World and Mythic Horse Press, 1996.

Showing the Way, a Hmong Initiation of the Dead. Bangkok, Pandora, 1983. André Breton, Selected Poems. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969
André Breton, Ode to Charles Fourier. London, Cape Goliard Press, 1969.

Into the White World. two cassettes of poetry readings, Scotsoun, 13 Ashton Rd, Glasgow G12 8SP, 1992.

review of St. Kilda's Parliament by Douglas Dunn, in Murray, Glen (ed. ), Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 44 & 45,