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The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown

The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown

by Brian Murray (Author), Brian Murray (Author), Brian Murray (Author), Ed. Archie Bevan (Author)

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Synopsis

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 vividly and memorably to life.

Here, his rich resonant poetry is collected in one volume, making available again many poems that are otherwise out of print.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 576
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: John Murray
Published: 15 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 0719568846
ISBN 13: 9780719568848
Book Overview: The poems of one of Scotland's finest poets collected in a single volume.

Media Reviews
Extraordinarily effective * Robert McCrum, The Observer *
A brilliant writer * Spectator *
George Mackay Brown really does possess the magician's touch * Observer *
A dazzling writer * The Guardian *
Undoubtedly 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 Heaney *
The Collected Poems show the range and depth of his work, the beauty of it, the undersong of terrible holy joy * Scotsman *
The 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-Johnston *
Practically every poem has the bite of originality * TLS *
'Mackay Brown was a bardic, celebratory poet who swathed all that he wrote about in a kind of caul of sacredness' * Independent, Michael Glover *
'A must-have... [Mackay Brown] transforms the mundane with a luminous lyricism' * The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston *
'The work has both a severe beauty and mischievous wit' * The Sunday Times *
Author Bio
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.