Norman Bissell has led the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics for 23 years and has a detailed knowledge of books about geopoetics by Kenneth White and others. He compiled and wrote the Introduction to Coast to Coast Interviews and Conversations by Kenneth White published by Open World and was co-editor of Grounding a World Essays on the work of Kenneth White from Alba Editions.
He also arranged the publication and reprinting of Geopoetics: place, culture, world by Kenneth White which is a short introduction to geopoetics. He will also refer to The Radical Field by Tony McManus which is an excellent analysis of geopoetics by the late founder and leader of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.
His latest book Living on an Island Expressing the Earth is a wide-ranging account of his involvement in geopoetics over many years which Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow recently described in The National newspaper as "an extraordinary compendium, an autobiographical account of Norman’s accommodation with the ecology of his own experience of life on a small island, as he has lived on Luing in the Slate Islands for many years. The book delivers a growing understanding of a community of care and concern, but also an intellectual enquiry into the term “geopoetics” itself... It’s a meticulous literary exploration of the author’s grateful relationship with Kenneth White..."
Various members of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics will read short extracts from these books and there will be plenty of time for Questions and Discussion.
