Carve the Runes: Selected Poems - Softcover

Brown, George Mackay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846975166 ISBN 13: 9781846975165

Verlag: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown’s Orkney, the poet’s 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. This is not the attitude of a shrinking violet, tentatively exploring his ‘voice’. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet to know that community, to sing its stories. But there was also room for introspection; the poet’s task was simultaneously to 'interrogate silence'.

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George Mackay Brown (1921–96) was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished and original writers. His lifelong inspiration and birthplace, Stromness in Orkney, moulded his view of the world, though he studied in Edinburgh and later at Newbattle Abbey College. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life in Stromness, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, the novel Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.

Kathleen Jamie is a poet and a writer of non-fiction. She is the author of three books: Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1846975166
• ISBN 13: 9781846975165
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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