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Recognising that no book stands alone, that a notion of where it comes from and where it is going is of great interest to the reader, we present behind each book a context of experience and culture, a Hinterland. |
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The Highliner Series
Directed by Kenneth White, the Highliner Series will follow the high line of Scottish and world culture, as seen by one of the most acute and comprehensive minds working today, the author of a considerable body of work (essay, prose, poetry), and a European intellectual of the highest order, from 1983 to 1996 holder of the Chair of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the Sorbonne.
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On The Atlantic Edge Extract
I began looking for the Finn when I was a youngster living on the Ayrshire coast, just opposite the island of Arran, which is an epitome of the whole of Scotland. When I was six or seven years old, my grandmother Cameron would point over to the outline of the Arran mountains and ask me if I saw the warrior. This was of course a local application of the legend more highly concentrated in the valley of Glencoe where on every summit one of the Fianna is asleep, the wind on the peaks being their breathing.
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On The Atlantic Edge Foreword by Peter Urpeth
It was very gratifying to learn that the three lectures Kenneth White delivered in the Highlands and Islands at the end of 2005, as part of the inaugural HI~Arts International Fellowship, were to form the main body of the first book in the new Highliner Series he is to direct for Sandstone Press. It is also entirely appropriate that the three Highlands and Islands lectures are joined in this book by a lecture given at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Review by Stuart B. Campbell
This book is based on four lectures given by Kenneth White last year at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and at Ullapool, Kirkwall and Inverness in October, when he was appointed as HI ~ Arts first International Fellow. Although Scottish, White has lived in France for many years and has a considerable reputation in mainland Europe as a writer, poet and thinker. Despite his international profile, it's only in recent years that White's work has received serious recognition in the UK. Sandstone Press have pulled off a bit of a coup.
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THE HI-ARTS CONNECTION
Kenneth White’s association with Hi-Arts can be traced through that organisation’s web site. You can read about ‘The Geopoetics Project’ here, and click on to hear his three Hi-Arts International Fellowship Lectures.
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