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...

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...

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...

Tomorrow is the feast day of St Magnus, the 12th-century martyr, patron saint of Orkney, and subject of the novel, Magnus, that the Orcadian poet and story-teller George Mackay Brown considered his best work. It would have given Brown quiet satisfaction that this was...

George Mackay Brown, the poet and novelist from Orkney, Scotland, died on April 13, 1996, at age 74. Mr. Brown's first major literary work, entitled 'Loaves and Fishes,' was published in 1959. Mr. Brown seldom left Orkney; he lived on the island isolated as...

In the following tribute, Feeney explores Brown's career, noting Seamus Heaney's remark that Brown could "transform everything by passing it through the eye of the needle of Orkney."

In the following review, Andreae considers Brown's posthumously published Following a Lark and Orkney: Pictures and Poems.

In the following review, Henry describes Brown's chronicling of island life in Beside the Ocean of Time.