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.

In the following review, Crotty offers a mixed assessment of Winter Tales.

In the following review, Roscoe compares Vinland and Beside the Ocean of Time.

In the following obituary, Gussow recaps Brown's life and career.

In the following review of The Wreck of the Archangel, Maxwell praises Brown as a creator of "pure and unadulterated" poetry.

In the following review, the critic describes the stories of Winter Tales as "always luminous if sometimes lifeless."

In the review below, Olson praises Brown as "one of the great contemporary poets of place."

In the following review, the critic describes Brown as gifted in "sharpening one's interest in genuinely rustic activities."

In the review below, the critic offers a mixed assessment of Beside the Ocean of Time.

In the following review, Olson finds the stories of Brown's Winter Tales "as poetic as any of his verse."

In the following review, Olson finds that Brown's poems "telescope the centuries."

In the following review, the critic describes the poems in The Wreck of the Archangel as "stout fare."