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Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Steve Savage Publishers Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
ISBN : 1904246079
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Calgary : Bayeux Arts
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1896209122
1994 Booker Prize short-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson's dreams re-living his birthplace.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848549456
George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, bardic honesty turned on himself. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190459817X
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,Brian Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0719565537
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 : John Murray
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549401
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 : Polygon
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Orkney (Scotland)
ISBN : 1846974801
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.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781788854672
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 : John Murray
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549418
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 : Maggie Fergusson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848547872
George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies as 'the most positive and benign influence ever on my own efforts at creation', he was also an accomplished novelist (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize for Beside the Ocean of Time) and a master of the short story. When he died in 1996, he left behind an autobiography as deft as it is ultimately uninformative. 'The lives of artists are as boring and also as uniquely fascinating as any or every other life,' he claimed. Never a recluse, he appeared open to his friends, but probably revealed more of himself in his voluminous correspondence with strangers. He never married - indeed he once wrote, 'I have never been in love in my life.' But some of his most poignant letters and poems were written to Stella Cartwright, 'the Muse of Rose Street', the gifted but tragic figure to whom he was once engaged and with whom he kept in touch until the end of her short life. Maggie Fergusson interviewed George Mackay Brown several times and is the only biographer to whom he, a reluctant subject, gave his blessing. Through his letters and through conversations with his wide acquaintance, she discovers that this particular artist's life was not only fascinating but vivid, courageous and surprising.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1903385660
George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549425
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.
Author : Rowena Murray,Brian Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190424632X
Charting the development of Brown's ideas and style, this book offers a study of the poet and writer's work taken as a whole. Including comparative studies of his key works, the authors describe and analyse his works and reflect on his enduring concern to achieve perfection of form and expression.
Author : Ron Ferguson
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861537273
George Mackay Brown is one of the 20th century's finest writers. This biography sweeps us along on an enriching literary and spiritual journey..Draws on unpublished letters, conversations with the enigmatic Bard's friends and well-known writers. Shortlisted for the Saltire Award Best Research Book of the Year.
Author : Linden Bicket
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474411660
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.
