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	BBC - Writing Scotland - Place - George MacKay Brown
		George Mackay Brown, the poet, novelist and dramatist, spent his life living in and documenting the Orkney Isles, situated off the north coast of Scotland.
		In late 1950 Mackay Brown met Edwin Muir, a fellow Orcadian, well known as a poet and translator in the Scottish Literary Renaissance, and his wife Willa.
		Many of Mackay Brown's works are concerned with protecting Orkney's cultural heritage from the relentless march of progress and the loss of myth and archaic ritual in the modern world, an anxiety which was further influenced by his conversion in 1961 to Catholicism.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/place/george_mackay_brown (510 words)

	Index to Pictures
		Mackay, Robert Lindsay aged 2, with his parents
		Mackay, Robert Lindsay with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
		Mackay, Robert Lindsay during the invasion of Normandy
	lu.softxs.ch /mackay/PictureIndex.html (134 words)

	Brown
		George Mackay Brown is buried in the Warbeth Kirkyard, (overlooking Hoy Sound) Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.
		Mackay Brown's first collection of poetry The Storm appeared in 1954 and was followed in 1959 by Loaves and Fishes and in 1969 by The Year of the Whale.
		Mackay Brown was inspired by Orkney island life and by the Norse sagas.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /brown.htm (269 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - 'Finished Fragrance'
		Brown, however, is closer to the real landscape and its farmers and fishermen, while one of his central concerns is the medieval core of what seems a peculiarly Orcadian or Norse tradition of Christianity.
		Brown’s conversion is not only a matter of private conviction; it ratifies the past eras he so often celebrates, and — from his poems — one could almost say that it was a matter of necessity, produced by his retrospective empathy for the heroes of his ideal Orkneys.
		Brown’s pastoral mode maintains an awareness of reality; he prefers the socially descriptive and real, and ignores the sophisticated, decorative and sexually delighting — also legitimate elements of ‘pastoral’ — which are, perhaps, not all that apt in a northern Arcadia.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=3506 (4039 words)

	George Mackay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Mackay Brown, OBE, was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland, on 17 October 1921 and died in Orkney on 13 April 1996.
		George Mackay Brown, the Orcadian poet and novelitst, who died on 13 April at the age of 74, achieved the unusual distinction of gaining widespread recognition in musical circles before his international reputation as a writer was fully established.
		George Mackay Brown was a visionary with his feet firmly on the ground, and a strong sense of his place in the local community.
	www.maxopus.com /people/gmb.htm (2812 words)

	George Mackay Brown - Canongate Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Orkney in 1921, George Mackay Brown was the youngest in a family of five children born to a tailor and the daughter of a fisherman from Sutherland.
		Brown's first novel, Greenvoe (1972), dealt specifically with the conflict between traditional ways of life in a remote community and the intrusion of nuclear technology and cold-war politics, while Magnus (s973) offers a meditation on the death of Magnus Erlendson the murdered Earl of Orkney who was later canonised.
		Brown's best work has often been haunted by his sense of history as a series of recurring - and too often violent - cycles, and Magnus makes a memorable link between the 12th century and the modern horrors of the concentration camps.
	www.canongate.net /GeorgeMackayBrown (350 words)

	The Orcadian Bookshop - About George Mackay Brown
		And yet George Mackay Brown, or GMB as he was simply known to most, still achieved an international reputation as a poet, dramatist and novelist – culminating in 1994 with his novel Beside the Ocean of Time being short-listed for the Booker Prize.
		George received many honours during his life, being awarded an OBE in 1974 and becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1977.
		George Mackay Brown’s name joined those of his other eminent fellow Orcadian writers when a plaque in his memory was erected in the east nave of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall – a building he returned to often.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /books/gmb/index.html (427 words)

	George Mackay Brown.
		George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, in 1921.
		The Island of the Women is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death.
		In the title story, Brown uses the famous Orcadian myth of the selkie, the seal-man. The story "Poet and Prince: A Fable", explores the role of the writer in society, a tale which begins in an unknown European state and concludes on Brown's beloved island.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /george-mackay-brown.htm (688 words)

	George Mackay Brown - Books From Scotland
		Mackay Brown's friendship with the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, was a fruitful one.
		George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest 20th century lyric poets.
		George Mackay Brown turns the story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney into a much wider and more transfiguring metaphor for goodness within a society that is corrupt and debased.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/George-Mackay-Brown (816 words)

	FT.com / Comment & analysis / Columnists - Eternity seen in wet stone and spindrift
		George had only to look out over the garths and crofts or the boats in the harbour at Stromness for the magic to begin to work".
		Orkney for Mackay Brown gave meaning to the short cycles of human growing, loving and dying by holding them against the huge and ever-present spans of nature and history.
		Mackay Brown, like Beckett needed to pursue a lengthy apprenticeship that often seemed to be going nowhere except rack and ruin.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/5fd90c54-d69a-11da-b64c-0000779e2340.html (0 words)

	February 2006 Feature: George MacKay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also planned for publication to coincide with the tenth anniversary of George’s death on 13 April is a CD of recordings of a selection of his poems and short stories.
		Such simplicity in story-telling came naturally to George, to whom the more complex and the new-fangled things in life were usually unwelcome; as Morag put it, George had trouble with progress, and his storytelling reflected that.
		George wrote best not of heroes but of simple folk, the sort who would have listened to the sailors' stories, or been part of them.
	www.hi-arts.co.uk /feb06_feature_george_mackay_brown.html (1698 words)

	George Mackay Brown Biography and Summary
		George Mackay Brown is not only a poet but also an acknowledged novelist and a sensitive writer of short stories and plays.
		George Mackay Brown(1921- 1996), was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist.
		Born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands, Mackay Brown is considered to be one the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Mackay_Brown (334 words)

	Memories and myths of George Mackay Brown - TLS Highlights - Times Online
		In Mackay Brown’s case (and Smith’s) it is more clearly an act of filial piety, while Smith was born to command the Gaelic language and write his name in another tongue.
		Mackay Brown was to suffer bouts of depression all his life, the “fl bird” as he called it in a letter to a friend.
		Mackay Brown spent time at Newbattle Abbey College, just south of Edinburgh, under the mentorship of another Orcadian, Edwin Muir, who was even more self-formed than Mackay Brown, and was to prove unfailingly kind until his death in 1959, when his benevolence was taken over by his wife, Willa.
	tls.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,25336-2305407,00.html (2272 words)

	Hamnavoe by George Mackay Brown - Poetry Archive
		George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) was born in the remote Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland and apart from two periods of education at Newbattle Abbey College and the University of Edinburgh, he lived there all his life.
		The integrity and unity of Mackay Brown's vision and diction are remarkable from his first collection in 1959, Loaves and Fishes, to his last, Following a Lark, in 1996.
		In 'The Poet' Mackay Brown ends by revealing the true calling of the poet, "the interrogation of silence" - we're lucky that on these occasions he was persuaded to speak, his soft accent at one with the words describing the islands he loved.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1540 (605 words)

	Amazon.fr : Vinland: Livres en anglais: George MacKay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vinland, George Mackay Brown's fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future.
		Through the telling of Ranald's story, Mackay Brown displays abundant knowledge about many facets of early Orkney life, of seamanship, marriage customs, beliefs and traditions and his portrayal of this age extends to the routine of the Norwegian Royal court.
		George Mackay Brown is one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.fr /Vinland-George-MacKay-Brown/dp/1904598331 (435 words)

	Amazon.de: The Wreck of the Archangel: Poems: English Books: George Mackay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown recalls the earliest history of his homeland--Orkney is the first archipelago north of the Scottish mainland and boasts some of the oldest Stone Age buildings in the British Isles--in verses that advert to Norse Vikings, the Romans before them, and, yet earlier, the semilegendary Picts.
		He often writes the oldest kinds of poems in English: calendar poems, riddling or question-and-answer poems, bestiaries, songs about the saints and holy days, verses on the most elemental things--a whole suite of poems here is about stone--in which the normally voiceless subjects speak their thoughts.
		Brown's poems telescope the centuries, returning us to an archetypal northern Europe as lively as the modern American rat race but far more significant.
	www.amazon.de /Wreck-Archangel-George-Mackay-Brown/dp/0719547504 (0 words)

	Amazon.fr : Beside the Ocean of Time: Livres en anglais: George MacKay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown's sweet coming-of-age novel about a fantasy-prone adolescent growing up in the Orkney Islands just before WWII offers some moving passages and fine, delicate prose but is sabotaged by a paucity of plot and narrative drive.
		In a series of odd yet intriguing chapters, Brown (Vinland) transforms Thorfinn into a Viking traveler, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn.
		Brown's lyrical descriptions and gift for local color capture the flavor of the Orkneys (where he was born), but his thin and choppy story line undermines this otherwise worthwhile effort.
	www.amazon.fr /Beside-Ocean-George-MacKay-Brown/dp/1896209122 (381 words)

	WAH Feature: George Mackay Brown
		George was not a performer, he occasionally made recordings for the BBC to supplement his income, and once went so far as to make a record, an LP.
		George finally gave up smoking at the beginning of the decade; after a spell in hospital when he couldn’t smoke he threw away all his pipes.
		George weaves his ideas of spirituality from his Celtic roots, his early visits with his parents to the Presbyterian Kirk [when his mother would keep the children quiet with a poke of sweeties], from the reflections of the Eternal he saw in the world around him.
	www.radiocad.karoo.net /wah5/georgemackaybrown/Feature.htm (2534 words)

	George Mackay Brown
		GMB had a life-long interest in the Orkneyinga Saga, the medieval account of Orkney's history and Norse connections.
		For forty years GMB published short stories, in anthologies and in thirteen collections of his own.
		In his poems, GMB brings simplicity and concision to his lyricism.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/brown_georgem.htm (702 words)

	George Mackay Brown. Vinland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lore and legend, the elemental pull of the sea and the land, the sweetness of the early religion and the darker, more ancient rites, weave through this exquisite celebration of Orcadian history and the inexorable seasons of life.
		George Mackay Brown was born in the Orkney Islands in 1921.
		Apart from his years of study on the mainland, George Mackay Brown has scarcely left Orkney, and the imagery and history of the islands have been the inspiration for all his work.
	www.vnlnd.net /author/BG02A992.htm (166 words)

	Brown, George Mackay Criticism and Essays \| Brown, George Mackay 1921–
		A British prize-winning poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist, Brown still lives in and writes of his native Orkney Islands.
		George Mackay Brown knows where he is. His middle name has the tang-smack of ancient clanship and his poems testify all the time to his fascinated, localised convictions about Orkney-landscape and Orkney-folk past and present.
		Inevitably there's local colour, if not whisky, galore: but not the brand to be mistaken for railway-carriage water-colours or package-deal brochures depicting remote Isles ready-made for recluses craving some ultimate haven-ly cul-de-sac, for neural souls despairing of diseases like noise, for weekend beachcombers seeking bits of bleached history under the shrill mewing...
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/brown-george-mackay/brown-george-mackay-1921 (150 words)

	George Mackay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GEORGE MACKAY BROWN, Bard of Orkney 1921 ~ 1996, This site, presently under construction, includes a Complete Works Index, reviews, Selected Writings and more.
		Greenness in every line The Drama of George Mackay Brown.
		Orcadian Features George Mackay Brown is featured in his hometown newspaper.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-englishpoets/brown_georgemackay.htm (103 words)

	Orkneyjar - Orkney Links on the WWW
		George Mackay Brown - The Stromness Poet: Until his death in April 1996, George Mackay Brown was a common sight walking through the streets of his beloved Stromness.
		A man of immense humility and literary skill, George's writing has captivated me since childhood, the first GMB book I bought being Pictures in the Cave, way back in Primary School.
		George Mackay Brown - Bard of Orkney: An ambitious website that aims to be the definitive online resource relating to GMB.
	www.orkneyjar.com /links.htm (1545 words)

	wotiwrote: George Mackay Brown's door
		Maggie Fergusson's biography of George Mackay Brown was published last month.I had a tellingly brief encounter with Mackay Brown in 1984, when I travelled from Edinburgh to Orkney.
		In my bag I carried a volume of poems (it must have been Fools and Angels) by Tessa Ransford - at one time my prospective mother-in-law - that she wanted me to give to her northern colleague.
		I also asked for directions to george Mackay Brown's house.
	wotiwrote.transmega.co.uk /2006/05/george-mackay-browns-door.html (748 words)

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		Original, hitherto unpublished poems from one of the finest Scottish writers of this century.
		Beautifully illustrated Homeric poems of love and longing crafted with the lyricism that was always a part of the life and writings of George Mackay Brown.
		Mackay Brown writes about the love of the Orkney Islands in a language that flows sometimes like a gentle wave, while swirling into a storm of emotions at other times.
	www.bayeux.com /CATEGORY__poetry.html (783 words)

	Amazon.com: Beside the Ocean of Time: Books: George MacKay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vnfortunately, the nature of Brown's purpose makes it difficult for a good plot to surround it, and the story is rather unrewarding.
		George Mackay Brown placed an "idle, worthless child" in a boat to look at Time and mold and meld it with his young eyes.
		We thank you, George Mackay Brown, for those brief voyages that are the lives of men and for the whispers of melody from that "music that goes on and on, all the way from before the beginning till after the end."
	www.amazon.com /Beside-Ocean-George-MacKay-Brown/dp/1904598293 (1577 words)

	George Mackay Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996), was a poet, author and dramatist.
		Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.
		Brown County's friendly citizens welcome visitors and provide a variety of entertainment and tourist attractions.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=George_Mackay_Brown (0 words)

	George Mackay Brown by Maggie Fergusson
		George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland`s greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes.
		Never a recluse, he appeared open to his friends, but probably revealed more of himself in his voluminous correspondence with strangers.
		Maggie Fergusson interviewed George Mackay Brown several times and is the only biographer to whom he, a reluctant subject, gave his blessing.
	www.lovereading.co.uk /book/1628 (236 words)

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