Kenneth White reads 59 of his Poems

59 poems taken from the cassettes “Into the White World“. The poems are from White’s collections “The Bird Path“ and the “Handbook for the Diamond Country“. The audio quality is good in parts. 00:00 from The Bird Path 00:11 Scotia Deserta 04:34 Early Morning Light on Loch Sunart 05:47 Letters from Harris 09:50 Crow Meditation Text 12:59 Hölderlin in Bordeaux 15:20 Remembering Gourgounel 17:52 Reading Han Shan in the Pyrenees 20:35 In Aquitania 25:17 Mountain Study 28:52 Labrador 35:00 In the Nashvac Night 36:58 Brandan’s last Voyage 43:18 Melville at Arrowhead 45:30 The Ocean Way 47:37 The House at the Head of the Tide 51:12 The Chaoticist Manifesto 53:17 The Winter Ceremony 57:13 Late August on the Coast 01:07:28 from Handbook for the Diamond Country 01:07:37 Report to Erigena 01:08:36 Morning Walk 01:09:09 Chant 01:09:33 New moon 01:10:18 The territory 01:10:43 McTaggart 01:11:19 Crab Nebula 01:11:50 Near point of Stoer 01:12:14 The most difficult area 01:12:48 Sun Yoga 01:13:14 In a cafe at Largs 01:13:41 Letter to an old calligrapher 01:14:09 Late December by the Sound of Jura 01:14:40 Walls 01:15:09 Round North again 01:15:53 Strathclyde 01:16:26 Late Summer Journey 01:16:54 Ludaig jetty 01:17:28 Last page of a notebook 01:17:47 A high blue day on Scalpay 01:18:27 Xenophanes of kolophon 01:19:01 Found on the shores of the Black Sea 01:20:04 Europe in the Fall 01:20:38 The lat days of the academy 01:21:14 Theory 01:22:04 A morning’s Work 01:22:36 A Fragment of yellow silk 01:23:02 A raw blue morning in Antwerp 01:23:28 Letter from Amsterdam 01:24:15 Joseph Martin’s report 01:24:46 West Labrador 01:25:15 Ungava 01:25:41 Achawakamik 01:26:21 Autumn afternoon 01:26:47 South-west corner news 01:27:25 Prose for the Col de Marie-Blanque 01:28:47 Blue thistle sermon 01:29:13 The old sea-chapel at Paimpol 01:29:55 A letter from Wisconsin 01:30:34 On the quay at Lannion 01:30:58 Meditant Tony McManus’s spoken introduction to these readings is posted here “She’s all goose““ ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Geopoetics, Scottish Poetry, British Poetry, Postmodern,
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