George Mackay Brown

Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781904598176
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greenvoe written by George Mackay Brown and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Calgary : Bayeux Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781896209128
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beside the Ocean of Time written by George Mackay Brown and published by Calgary : Bayeux Arts. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1994 Booker Prize short-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson's dreams re-living his birthplace.

Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Steve Savage Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781904246077
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Brinkie's Brae written by George Mackay Brown and published by Steve Savage Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848549458
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Islands I Sing written by George Mackay Brown and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848549407
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vinland written by George Mackay Brown and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780719565533
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown written by George Mackay Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1848549415
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Calendar of Love written by George Mackay Brown and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1788854675
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carve the Runes written by George Mackay Brown and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781846974809
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Orkney Tapestry written by George Mackay Brown and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rowena Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904246329
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogation of Silence written by Rowena Murray and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.