Wú Kě 吳可 (fl. 1119–1170s), of unknown native place. The Sìkù editors reconstruct his career-trajectory entirely from internal evidence in the Cánghǎi jūshì jí KR4d0183: held office in Biànjīng (the Northern-Sòng capital) at the close of Xuānhé (c. 1125); later petitioned for retirement (guàguān yǎngzhuō); originally lived in Fēnníng 分寧 (modern Jiāngxī), in recent years a guest at Línrǔ 臨汝; during the Jiànyán (1127ff.) flight he was at the Xiāngjiāng / Liúrǔ border. Active as a literary correspondent with Wáng Ānzhōng 王安中, Zhào Lìngzhì 趙令畤, Mǐ Yǒurén 米友仁 — i.e. with major late-Northern-Sòng literary figures. Hóng Mài’s Róngzhāi sānbǐ records a Tóng Démǐn 童德敏 of Línchuān composing a poem on Yán Lǔgōng’s shrine in Húzhōu — Tóng Démǐn appears in Wú’s Cánghǎi shīhuà; that shīhuà was therefore active up to Qiándào / Chúnxī (1170s).
The Sìkù editors place Wú as a continuator of the Yuányòu literary tradition into the early Southern Sòng, comparable in style to Xiè Mài 謝邁 and his brothers. Lì È’s Sòng shī jì shì (recording 3,800+ authors) failed to include Wú — “qí chénhuì yǐ jiǔ” (his obscurity already long).
CBDB: id 35111 has 0/0 dates; ids 41625, 208212, 685303, 686302 are also “Wú Kě” with no dates — homonyms. None can be confidently matched.
His collection survives as Cánghǎi jūshì jí 藏海居士集 KR4d0183 in 2 juǎn (Sìkù Yǒnglè dàdiǎn reconstruction). His Cánghǎi shīhuà 藏海詩話 (KR4h-series) is also extant.