Under Brinkie's Brae
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Steve Savage Publishers Limited |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-03-01 |
Genre | : Orkney (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781904246077 |
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Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Steve Savage Publishers Limited |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-03-01 |
Genre | : Orkney (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781904246077 |
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780719565533 |
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.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Calgary : Bayeux Arts |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781896209128 |
1994 Booker Prize short-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson's dreams re-living his birthplace.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848549407 |
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.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Birlinn Publishers |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781904598176 |
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.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848549415 |
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.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-06-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1788854675 |
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'.
Author | : George MacKay Brown |
Publisher | : Polygon |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : Authors, Scottish |
ISBN | : 9781846975110 |
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.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-03-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781903385661 |
George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.
Author | : George Mackay Brown |
Publisher | : Polygon |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Orkney (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781846974809 |
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.