THERE are multiple points of entry to the life and death of Kenneth White – Scottish-French poet, philosopher and nomad ...
Scottish writer Kenneth White poses during a portrait session held on June 4, 2006 in Saint Malo, France
This points to a much subtler status for White – more than just being a heavily-garlanded European Scot. As founder of the discipline of geopoetics, White may well also be a future ecological resource for us all. His work and life could give Scots a language for loving nature, so that we might blunt our disruption of it – and its disruption of us.Le Monde’s obituary hazards the following definition: “It’s far from ‘a literary school’ or ‘poetry as an intimate art’.
To borrow the title of Hutton’s great scientific work, White has his own “theory of the Earth”. It’s about how humans can refresh their perceptions, their very being, by opening their sensory channels to the environmental variety of the planet. The Christian philosopher Alastair McIntosh describes how White’s work inspired him and his comrades – especially in their successful drive to return ownership of the island of Eigg to its community.
Later, McIntosh brought White in to be a trustee of the Govan initiative GalGael, where boat-building and carpentry regenerates broken lives in that often tough part of Glasgow. Again, Alastair cites White’s geopoetry as inspiration:floating on the dark, dank watersAs a self-conscious “citizen of the world”, White is about more than symbolically hopeful swans on the River Clyde. Although, to be sure, he has expressed his aspirations for Scotland explicitly enough.
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