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George Mackay Brown

Male : Novelist. Became a Catholic 1961
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Stromness, Orkney Islands

Date of Birth : 1921 Date of Death : 1996 Age : 75

Education : Newbattle Abbey & Edinburgh Univ (Eng)
1948-1970
Let's See the Orkney Islands
(1948 Wm S Thomson, Fort William)
The Storm & Other Poems
(1954 Orkney Press, Kirkwall) - Ian MacInnes
Stromness - The Orkney Islands - The Official Guide
(1955 J Burrow)
Loaves and Fishes : Poems
(1959 HP)
The Year of the Whale
(1965 C & W / HP)
A Calendar of Love & Other Stories
(1967 HP)
Twelve Poems
(1968 Queen's Univ Festival Publications, Belfast)
The Wedding Poem
(1968 Gray's Sch of Art, Aberdeen)
A Time to Keep & Other Stories
(1969 HP)
An Orkney Tapestry
(1969 Gollancz) - drawings by Sylvia Wishart
A Spell for Green Corn
(1970 HP) - Play

1971-1975
Lifeboat and Other Poems
(1971 Richard Gilbertson, Crediton)
Fishermen with Ploughs
(1971 HP)
Poems New and Selected
(1971 HP)
Selected Poems
(1972 Penguin Modern Poets 21) - pb
Greenvoe
(1972 Hogarth Press)
Magnus
(1973 Hogarth Press £2)
Four Poems
(1973 Gray's Sch Art, Aberdeen)
Hawkfall & Other Stories
(1974 HP)
The Two Fiddlers
(1974 C & W) - Ian MacInnes
Edwin Muir : A Brief Memoir
(1975 Castlelaw Press, West Linton)
Letters from Hamnavoe
(1975 Gordon Wright, Edinburgh)

1976-1980
The Sun's Net
(1976 HP) - ss
Winterfold
(1976 C & W / HP £2.25)
Selected Poems
(1977 HP £3.50)
Witch & Other Stories
(1977 Longman)
Pictures in the Cave
(1977 C & W) - Ian MacInnes
Under Bronkie's Brae
(1979 G Wright)
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
(1980 C & W) - Ian MacInnes

1981-1985
Portrait of Orkney
(1981 HP)
Andrina & Other Stories
(1983 C & W / Hogarth Press)
Voyages
(1983 C & W / HP)
Three Plays
(1984 C & W / HP)
Christmas Poems
(1984 Perpetua Press) - wood engravings John Lawrence
Time in a Red Coat
(1984 Hogarth Press/C & W)
Shorelines : Three Artists from Orkney
(1985 Collins Gallery, Glasgow)
Christmas Stories
(1985 Perpetua Press, Oxford) - wood engravings by John Lawrence
- 150 signed by Author, Artist and Printer
The Hooded Fisherman
(1985 Duval & Hamilton, Pitlochry) - ss - Charles Shearer

1986-1990
The Scottish Bestiary
(1986 Paragon Press, Edinburgh) - et al
The Loom of Light
(1986 Balnain Books) - Play
Keepers of the House
(1986 Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Monmouth) - Gillian Martin
A Celebration of Magnus
(1987 Balnain) - Play
Stone
(1987 Duval & Hamilton, Verona, Italy)
The Golden Bird : Two Orkney Stories
(1987 J Murray £10.95)
Edwin Muir : Selected Prose
(1987 J Murray)
Songs for St Magnus Day
(1988 Perpetua Press) - wood engravings by John Lawrence
Two Poems for Kenna
(1988 Words Press)
The Wreck of the Archangel
(1989 J Murray)
Tryst on Egilsay
(1989 Celtic Cross Press, Wetherby) - Rosemary Roberts
The Masked Fisherman
(1989 J Murray) - ss
Letters to Gypsy
(1990 Balnain) - Simon Fraser

1991-1995
The Sea-King's Daughter/Eureka !
(1991 Balnain Books, Nairn)
- ss - Alan Watson & Eriend Brown
Selected Poems 1954-1983
(1991 J Murray)
In the Margins of a Shakespeare
(1991 Old Stile Press) - 220 signed
Rockpools and Daffodils : An Orcadian Diary
(1992 G Wright)
Brodgar Poems
(1992 Perpetua Press) - Paul Kershaw
The Lost Village
(1992 Celtic Cross) - Rosemary Roberts
Rockpools and Daffodils
(1992)
Foresterhill : A Sequence of Poems
(1992 Babel, Germany) (1993) - Ltd Ed 300
Vinland
(1992 John Murray)
Sails in St Magnus
(1993)
Beside the Ocean of Time
(1994 John Murray £14.99)
Winter Tales
(1995 John Murray) - ss

AFTER 1996
Selected Poems 1954 - 1992
(1996 John Murray pb £8.99)
For the Islands I Sing : An Autobiography
(1997 John Murray £16)
Travellers
(2001 John Murray £10.99)

READING
Alan Boyd : George Mackay Brown
(1978 Oliver & Boyd)
David Annwyn : Inhabited Voices - Myth and History in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill,
Seamus Heaney & George Mackay brown
(1984 Bran's Head Books, Somerset)
O Yamada,H D Spear & D S Robb : The Contribution to Literature of Orcadian Writer George
Mackay Brown
(1991 Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter)

Related Writers

Edinburgh
John Lawrence
Orkney Islands


See also

Booker Prize
Booker Prize Authors



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