On the Atlantic Edge by Kenneth White | Sandstone Press

On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project

Kenneth White

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KENNETH WHITE IS one of the most daring of Europe’s writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out the bounds of a limiting culture he left Scotland for France with his wife, Marie-Claude, in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centres in various countries, including Scotland and England.

In 2005 he became the first Hi-Arts International Arts Fellow, presenting a series of three lectures in Wester Ross, Inverness and Orkney. As ever his words were pregnant with intimations of what is possible. It was the beginning of a journey he now continues with Sandstone Press in a series of substantial works entitled ‘The Highliner Series’.

THE HIGHLINER SERIES follows and prolongs the high line of world culture as viewed by its director, the Scot Kenneth White, one of the liveliest and most comprehensive minds working in Europe today. Consisting mainly of relatively short books, finely written and cogently argued, the series will aim at the opening up of a new space, critical and creative, in writing and thought.

This first book, On the Atlantic Edge, is the full text of his Highland lectures preceded by, in the way of introduction, his lecture to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005. The series is exquisitely designed and produced and each book carries a cover image from Highland based artist Wendy Sutherland. Wendy’s work is increasingly appreciated wherever it travels, increasingly challenging attitudes to the land as it is seen.