‘Daffodils’ from Carve the Runes by George Mackay Brown
22 Feb '22
Daffodils Heads skewered with grief Three Marys at the cross (Christ was wire and wax festooned on a dead tree) Guardians of the rock, their emerald...
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Christmas Poem 2021: ‘Tinker Talk’ by George Mackay Brown
21 Dec '21
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Tinker Talk George Mackay Brown I saw the four shepherds, black In the sun’s ruin. Four star-cut shadows, soon. Folk...
Poem of the Week: ‘House of Winter’ by George Mackay Brown
07 Dec '21
Introducing a new volume of poetry The Wreck of the Archangel in 1989, George Mackay Brown wrote ‘There has been no book of poetry from me...
‘The Drowned Rose’ – Extract from TALES FOR TWILIGHT
22 Oct '21
Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early nineteenth century to James...
Poem of the Week: Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown
13 Jul '21
Alexander McCall Smith selected George Mackay Brown‘s poem ‘Beachcomber’ for his anthology of Scottish poems, A Gathering. He...
‘The Midsummer Music’ from An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
21 Jun '21
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet, and is now back in print for the first time in over...
About George: a new film for GMB 100 by Orkney’s St Magnus Festival
18 Jun '21
Over the midsummer weekend the St Magnus Festival will be broadcasting music and arts around the world from Kirkwall in Orkney. A special thread of...
Poem of the Week: The Poet by George Mackay Brown
11 Jun '21
The title of our new volume of selected poems by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, Carve the Runes, comes from the words inscribed on his island...
Poem of the Week: ‘A New Child: ECL’ by George Mackay Brown
13 Apr '21
Today marks 25 years since George Mackay Brown died on 13th April 1996 in Stromness, Orkney. But 2021 also sees the centenary of his birth. Polygon...
