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The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown

The Collected Poems of George MacKay Brown

Publisher: John Murray Publishers,
Written By: George MacKay Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780719565533
ISBN: 0719565537
Label: John Murray Publishers,
Manufacturer: John Murray Publishers,
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 547
Publication Date: 2005-01
Publisher: John Murray Publishers,
Studio: John Murray Publishers,

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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.


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Summary: The Songs of an Orkney Bard
Comment: 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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