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George Mackay Brown is recognized as one of Scotland's greatest 20th-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature during the last 50 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.
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    0719568846
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Brian Murray read English at Glasgow University and was a teacher in the West of Scotland. With Archie Bevon he has been editing the unpublished and uncollected work of George Mackay Brown - seven volumes to date, with an eighth just completed.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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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0719568846
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0719568848
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.7 x 9 inches
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William A,Tosches MD
5.0 out of 5 stars Scotland’s Bard of the North
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It’s a fine collection of George Mackay Brown’s works. I only Learned about the poet after reading “ Borges And Me “ by Jay Parini. Browns writing invites deep introspection s
Into life in northern Scotland Orkney Islands. The author has an incredible way with words that beg for reflection and allow for a deep understanding of the poet’s bardic abilities
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Hugh Evans
4.0 out of 5 stars The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
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This book contains a comprehensive collection of George Mackay Brown's poems. It includes a short biography of Mackay Brown, notes on the text, a map of Orkney, where most of the poems are set, and an introduction which in itself is a pleasure to read. These poems take one into a remote and exposed place with lyricism and a powerful beauty of language. This book has more than met expectations aroused by a short BBC TV programme on the poet. I feel enriched by it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
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Owen Sheers presented a BBC programme on Poets of Great Britain which introduced a terrific poet to a wider audience, George Mackay Brown. This book is his collected poems and contains many small gems of a master craftsman of the English language. Definitely worth buying this book. Especially I like "Agricultural Show: Dounby", the last stanza is wonderful :
"That hill of blond surges, they hallow
Tomorrow's harvester. And see,
The horse we banished from our hills
Drifts delicately to his handful of grass."
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john barr
5.0 out of 5 stars I've loved several of his poems for a long time
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016
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I've loved several of his poems for a long time: "Carve the runes. Then be content with silence." Had no idea he was so prolific. Very glad to own his "Collected."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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One of the best authors of all time.
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Lawrence Mack Hall
4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Modern Poet
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012
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Much of Brown's earlier work is, not to its advantage, influenced by the poetic fashions of the 1930s-1950s; he gets over it later in life and lives up to his content, C. S. Lewis' "northerness." This work is grounded -- or islanded -- in the Orkneys and in Scotland, and in their Nordic, Celtic, and English blendings.
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Nathan Wirth
5.0 out of 5 stars The Songs of an Orkney Bard
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2007
In an effort to perfect his craft, George Mackay Brown often wrote about the same themes: the meeting of the Viking world and the Christian World, the violence of the past and the present, solitude, silence, and other such concerns. Magnus, a 12th Century Orkney saint, is at the center of much of his work and reappears again and again in his prose, poetry, and essays. That said-- despite the recurring themes, Brown was a wonderful, gifted poet that had a real talent for image, meter, the symbol, and a senseof the Orkney life-- both past and present. As Seamus Heaney once said, "his sense of the world and his way with words are powerfully one with each other." Indeed, Brown fine tuned his craft writing about the lives, history, and stories of the Orkney people, a people steeped in both a rich and violent past, a past that reflects the present with alarming clarity. A worthy collection-- some previously unreleased by Brown-- of poems from a poet who should be better known in the United States.

Brown, in his lifetime, often made odd choices and exclusions from his various selected poems. This volume sets everything right, bringing many of those worthy, excluded poems to the forefront where they belong.
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mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful collection
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Discovered this sublime author whilst on recent holiday on Orkney.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry at its best.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017
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An outstanding body of work rankiing with the great poets, ancient and modern. Powerful and evocative, the haunting imagery touches the soul in a fashion gifted to the few.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading. Very atmospheric.
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gregoir
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Collection of Orcadian Poetry
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Decent condition and a very comprehensive collection. The introductions are good and as informative as as George Mackay Brown's autobiography.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic body of work.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2013
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I had not encountered a great deal of Mackay Brown's poetry - only a few - and was familiar with his prose. I had no idea how substantial and how wonderful his poetic work was. I love this collection.
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