George Mackay Brown Summary

George Mackay Brown is probably the greatest living Scottish writer. Since 1954 he has had published eleven volumes of poetry, which have met with both critical and popular success. At the age of fort... Read more

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... Read more

In the following review of The Wreck of the Archangel, Maxwell praises Brown as a creator of "pure and unadulterated" poetry. There can be few poets anywhere in the Western world writing... Read more

In the following review, Olson finds the stories of Brown's Winter Tales "as poetic as any of his verse." These 18 stories [in Winter Tales] by Orkney poet Brown are as poetic as ... Read more

In the following review, Andreae considers Brown's posthumously published Following a Lark and Orkney: Pictures and Poems. In an island, time is a simple pure circle. The line is from a recen... Read more

In the following review, the critic describes Brown as gifted in "sharpening one's interest in genuinely rustic activities." Gathering the best-known work of one of the leading po... Read more

In the following review, Roscoe compares Vinland and Beside the Ocean of Time. John Donne once said in a sermon that if your mind wanders to other places, then that is where you are; you are no longer... Read more

In the following review, the critic describes the poems in The Wreck of the Archangel as "stout fare." A poet of the Orkney Islands of northernmost Scotland, Brown (Voyages) is something... Read more

In the following review, Henry describes Brown's chronicling of island life in Beside the Ocean of Time. George Mackay Brown's Beside the Ocean of Time might have been subtitled "... Read more