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Kenneth White was one of Scotland’s greatest poets and thinkers who lived most of his life in France. He died peacefully at his home on the north coast of Brittany after a short illness. He was an inspiring lecturer and educator whose talks and readings at the Edinburgh International Book Festival between 2001 and 2009 attracted capacity audiences. Its Director, Catherine Lockerbie, called him “an intellectual nomad of genius” and Seamus Heaney said his poetry was “Erudite, elemental, big and bold, a manifestation of the kind of poetry MacDiarmid hoped for”.