The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown

The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
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.

The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems
Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0062669451

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

Carve the Runes

Carve the Runes
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'.

The Storm and Other Poems

The Storm and Other Poems
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.

Vinland

Vinland
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.

Beside the Ocean of Time

Beside the Ocean of Time
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.

For the Islands I Sing

For the Islands I Sing
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.

Winter Tales

Winter Tales
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848549423

This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land. Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns and traditions of Orkney life.

Collected Poems

Collected Poems
Author: Robert Rendall
Publisher: Steve Savage Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9781904246367

Robert Rendall was one of Orkney's best 20th-century poets. This collection includes all the poems in Rendall's four books plus many unpublished poems.

Ambition and Survival

Ambition and Survival
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1619320932

An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.