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Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Steve Savage Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781904246077
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)
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 : Calgary : Bayeux Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781896209128
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
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 : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848549407
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
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 : 4.5/5 (655 download)
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 : 4.8/5 (485 download)
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 : 4.7/5 (888 download)
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 : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781904598176
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (981 download)
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 : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846975110
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)
Download or read book For the Islands I Sing written by George MacKay Brown and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846974809
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)
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 : George Mackay Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903385661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Storm and Other Poems written by George Mackay Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848549423
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Winter Tales written by George Mackay Brown and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904246329
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)
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.
Author : George MacKay Brown
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846971518
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The Sun's Net written by George MacKay Brown and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; two ghosts become reconciled with death; and, an eighteenth-century tale of piracy and treachery. George Mackay Brown's distinctive voice has a clarity and resonance that blends the magical with the mundane, and the present with the past.
Author : Kathleen Jamie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134450
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Surfacing written by Kathleen Jamie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.” —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, “By the Book” in The New York Times Book Review. An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines. In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Six Lives of Fankle the Cat written by George Mackay Brown and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny has a rich imagination but even she could not have imajined how lucky she would be when Mr Strynd gave her a small black kitten. Frankle is a special cat who can talk and he tells Jenny about his previous lives as, amongst others, a moon-cat, a pirate and the companion of an Egyptian princess. These are just three of the amazing stories which frankle recounts.
Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062669451
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poems written by Sylvia Plath and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Maggie Fergusson
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547870
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book George Mackay Brown written by Maggie Fergusson and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
