Kenneth White reads 59 of his Poems

1 year ago
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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 https://youtu.be/iuJ6Fe_Ma6U

"She's all goose""
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Geopoetics, Scottish Poetry, British Poetry, Postmodern,

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