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George Mackay Brown is not only a poet but also an acknowledged novelist and a sensitive writer of short stories and plays. His successes in poetry and the prose narrative are considerable, and the really surprising thing about him is not so much his ext...

Now past seventy, George Mackay Brown is unique among modern British writers in the scope, nature, and integrity of his achievements. A major part of his distinctiveness lies in the way he has created an entire oeuvre centered on a sparsely populated reg...

To say that Orkney was important to George Mackay Brown's art is to understate massively. For Brown, Orkney was the source of his art. Its presence is all-pervasive in his poetry and in his prose works. Its history and myth provide Brown with the bulk of...

George Mackay Brown's BESIDE the Ocean of Time might have been subtitled "A Writer's Life." The novel recaps Brown's continuing preoccupations as expressed in his weekly columns in the Orkney Herald in the 1940s and 1950s and the Orcadian in the 1970s, 1980s,...

For most people, the term "exploration" evokes the notion of exciting new discoveries of places and things. But ocean exploration is as much about unveiling new processes as it is about new places. This is especially true for discoveries made in the oceans, where...