The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
$46.84
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2006
Summary
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 over 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 vividl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719568848 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719568846 |
| Author: | Brian Murray, Ed. Archie Bevan |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 691g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 157mm x 43mm |
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Critics Review
Extraordinarily effective - Robert McCrum, The Observer
A brilliant writer - SpectatorGeorge Mackay Brown really does possess the magician’s touch - ObserverA dazzling writer - The GuardianUndoubtedly the most important document of his work to be produced so far. - Shetland Times, Malachy Tallack.George Mackay Brown has added uniquely and steadfastly to the riches of poetry in English: his sense of the world and his way with words are powerfully at one with each other - Seamus HeaneyThe Collected Poems show the range and depth of his work, the beauty of it, “the undersong of terrible holy joy” - ScotsmanThe reader embarks on a voyage - which is how Mackay Brown himself saw his work - through the elemental world of his cliff-girt, craggy isles. - The Times, Rachel Campbell-JohnstonAbout The Author
Brian Murray
Brian Murray read English at Glasgow University and was a teacher in the West of Scotland. With Archie Bevan he has been editing the unpublished and uncollected work of George Mackay Brown - seven volumes to date, with an eighth just completed. Like his daughter Rowena, he was a long-term friend of the writer.
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