Kenneth White is a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He has published numerous works of poetry and prose, with volumes and essays in French as well as English. His work has also been translated into several languages.He is the recipient of many awards and honours, in Europe and Scotland, including the Grand Prix du Rayonnement Fran ais by the Acad mie fran aise for his work as a whole (1985), the douard Glissant prize from the University of Paris VIII for his 'openness to the cultures of the world' (2004) and Prix de po sie Alain Bosquet for Les Archives du Littoral, a bilingual poetry collection (2011). White holds honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the Open University and is an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy.In 1989 he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics to promote further research into the cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary field of study which he had been developing during the previous decade. It has since produced six Cahiers de G opo tique (journals) in French, publishing a range of work on geopoetics from throughout the world. Geopoetics Centres have since been set up in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Quebec, New Caledonia and France.His publications in English include, Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath (Aberdeen, 2013), The Wanderer and his Charts (Polygon, 2004), Open World: The Collected Poems 1960-2000 (Birlinn, 2003), House of Tides (Polygon, 2000). He lives on the north coast of Brittany.Cairns Craig is Director of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry (1982), Out of History (1996), The Modern Scottish Novel (1999), Associationism and the Literary Imagination (2007). He was general editor of the four-volume History of Scottish Literature (1987-9) and has been on the editorial boards of Cencrastus, Radical Scotland, Edinburgh Review and the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.