George Mackay Brown Ordre des livres

From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, George Mackay Brown wrote new Christmas poems which were printed on cards sent to his close family or friends, or, as the years went on, he designed his own cards, commissioning art from friends and family and again including original verse compositions. This book reproduces all the known cards, the majority of which were found in the possession of his niece living in Stromness, George's home town throughout most of his life. They are a complete delight and will be a must for all of Mackay Brown's numerous and devoted followers. But they also open a door into this remarkable man's life which will have an appeal to an audience far beyond the shores of Orkney at Christmas time.

In this, the first new selection of George Mackay Brown’s poetry for over 25 years, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of the poet’s Orkney, his 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. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet to know that community, to sing its stories.

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 and a celebration of Orkney's people, language and history. Unavailable for many years, this new edition has a specially commissioned Introduction written by Kirsteen McCue and Linden Bicket.

Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas stories that Mackay Brown either published separately in newspapers, or included in limited edition book printings, together with some of his previously published stories. They all possess the extraordinary Orcadian voice that can only be be George Mackay Brown. They take the reader to another time, another universe, and will brighten any reader's Christmas season

Thorfinn Ragnarson, syn gospodarza z wyspy Norday, najwyraźniej nie nadaje się ani na rolnika, ani na rybaka. Nie ma też głowy do nauki Na cóż może się zdać otoczeniu marzyciel, który wciąż wyobraża sobie fantastyczne opowieści osnute na kanwie dziejów i legend wysp to o wikingach, to o preceltyckich mieszkańcach nadmorskiej twierdzy, to znów o fokach zrzucających zwierzęce skóry i odwiedzających ląd pod ludzką postacią? Czy uznany za nieudacznika młodzieniec odkryje swój cel w życiu, nim świat oślepi go chłodnym światłem dnia powszedniego? Czy odnajdzie poznaną w dzieciństwie fascynującą, niepokorną dziewczynę, która jako jedyna zdawała się go rozumieć? Powieść Nad oceanem czasu to przebogaty po części baśniowy, po części realistyczny obraz życia na dalekich północnych wyspach. Czerpiąc pełnymi garściami z dziejów oraz folkloru rodzinnego archipelagu, wybitny szkocki poeta, dramatopisarz i prozaik George Mackay Brown stworzył literackie arcydzieło, stanowiące zarówno przepojony liryzmem portret Orkadów, jak i uniwersalną opowieść o ludzkim życiu naszych pragnieniach i rozczarowaniach, miłości i pracy, beztroskiej młodości i nieuchronnym przemijaniu a przede wszystkim o naszej potrzebie dzielenia legend i pieśni

These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.

Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time.She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music. Moving across the battlefields from East to West, the girl bears witness to the suffering and brutality of war throughout history ...

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.