Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Steve Savage Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781904246077
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Under Brinkie's Brae
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Steve Savage Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781904246077
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780719565533
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last fifty years. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, his poems are deeply individual and unmistakable in their setting: 'the small green world' of the Orkney Islands where he lived for most of his life, with its elemental forces of sea and sky and Norse and Icelandic ancestry, is brought vividly and memorably to life. Here, his rich and resonant poetry is collected in one volume, making available again many poems that are otherwise out of print.
Beside the Ocean of Time
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Calgary : Bayeux Arts
ISBN: 9781896209128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
1994 Booker Prize short-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson's dreams re-living his birthplace.
Vinland
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland.
Greenvoe
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN: 9781904598176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.
A Calendar of Love
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The author's beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers. History plays a part too, for Norse and Scottish legend are revived in tales of witch trials, priest hunts and Viking raids, all endowed with the stark beauty of George Mackay Brown's masterful storytelling.
The Storm and Other Poems
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903385661
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.
Carve the Runes
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854675
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration. George Mackay Brown's concerns were the ancestral world, the communalities of work, the fables and religious stories which he saw as underpinning mortal lives. Brown believed from the outset that poets had a social role and his true task was to fulfil that role. This is not the attitude of a shrinking violet, tentatively exploring his 'voice'. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet to know that community, to sing its stories. But there was also room for introspection; the poet's task was simultaneously to 'interrogate silence'.
For the Islands I Sing
Author: George MacKay BrownPublisher: Polygon
ISBN: 9781846975110
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
George's memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a poor family and which he rarely left. His mother was a beautiful woman who spoke only Gaelic and his father was a wit, mimic and singer, who also doubled as postman and tailor. Tuberculosis framed George's early life and kept him in a kind of limbo. He discovered alcohol which gave him insights into the workings of the mind. While attending the University of Edinburgh he came into contact with Goodsir Smith, MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig - and Stella Cartwright with whom perhaps all of them were in love.By the time of his death in 1996 he was recognised as one of the great writers of his time and country.
An Orkney Tapestry
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: Polygon
ISBN: 9781846974809
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama and environmental writing. The book, written at an early stage in the author's career, explores themes that appear in his later work and was a landmark in Brown's development as a writer. Above all, it is a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. This edition reproduces Sylvia Wishart's beautiful illustrations, commissioned for the original hardback.Made available again for the first time in over 40 years, this new edition sits alongside Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain as an important precursor of environmental writing by the likes of Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Malachy Tallack and, most recently, Amy Liptrot.