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George Mackay Brown
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Author : Maggie Fergusson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-21
George Mackay Brown written by Maggie Fergusson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Under Brinkie S Brae
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Steve Savage Publishers Limited
Release Date : 2003-03-01
Under Brinkie S Brae written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Steve Savage Publishers Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-01 with Orkney (Scotland) categories.
Greenvoe
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Greenvoe written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Fiction categories.
The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life. George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest writers.
George Mackay Brown
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Author : Alan Norman Bold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
George Mackay Brown written by Alan Norman Bold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Orkney (Scotland) categories.
The Collected Poems Of George Mackay Brown
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Collected Poems Of George Mackay Brown written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with English poetry categories.
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.
For The Islands I Sing
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-01-23
For The Islands I Sing written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Beside The Ocean Of Time
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Beside The Ocean Of Time written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Fiction categories.
In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island. Searching for the peace and freedom of mind he had in abundance as a child, he finds instead something he didn't even know he was looking for. George Mackay Brown intertwines myth and reality to create a novel of deceptive simplicity. The story of Thorfinn and the island of Norday is a universal and profound one, rooted in the timeless landscape of the Orkneys, the inspiration of all his writing.
George Mackay Brown And The Philosophy Of Community
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Author : Timothy C Baker
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-23
George Mackay Brown And The Philosophy Of Community written by Timothy C Baker and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.
An Orkney Tapestry
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Polygon
Release Date : 2021-06-03
An Orkney Tapestry written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Polygon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with Orkney (Scotland) categories.
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.
George Mackay Brown
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985*
George Mackay Brown written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985* with categories.