George MacKay Brown: No Separation
- ISBN-10
- 1781820406
- ISBN-13
- 9781781820407
- Series
- George MacKay Brown
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-09
- Publisher
- Gracewing
- Author
- Alison Gray
Description
George Mackay Brown, the poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney's, but Britain's best twentieth-century poet - widely praised by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and fellow Orcadian mentor Edwin Muir. Many of his works are concerned with protecting Orkney's cultural heritage from the relentless march of progress and the loss of myth and archaic ritual in the modern world, a concern further influenced by his own conversion to Catholicism. Alison Gray has written No Separation first and foremost as a faith story, opening up the Catholicism of George Mackay Brown that hitherto has remained quiet, unexplored and not greatly understood. Not a Catholic or religious writer as such, but treating all the subjects of literature as a Catholic would treat them, and only could treat them. She places Mackay Brown's writings within an Orkney poetics, a shared Orcadian patrimony that is in touch with its own great past whilst simultaneously being deeply connected to the currents of theology and modern intellectual life in the twentieth century and beyond.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
By George Mackay BrownOne of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets portrays the character and beauty of his native Orkney Islands. -- Back cover.
-
Beside the Ocean of Time
By George Mackay Brown1994 Booker Prize short-listed story of Thorfinn Ragnarson's dreams re-living his birthplace.
-
Greenvoe
By George Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest writers.
-
For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography
By George Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived.
-
Vinland
By George Mackay BrownSet in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his ...
-
Vinland
By George Mackay BrownThrough Ranald's story, many elements of early mediaeval life - of seamanship, marriage customs, beliefs and traditions - are brought vibrantly to life, and the traditional poetry interwoven through the prose adds a richness and poignancy ...
-
George Mackay Brown
By Alan Norman BoldGeorge Mackay Brown
-
Beside the Ocean of Time
By George Mackay BrownIn this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter.
-
Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
By George Mackay BrownSo what is he doing living in a crofter's cottage in Orkney? This classic novel by George Mackay Brown is a rich and rewarding read for adults and children alike.
-
A Calendar of Love
By George Mackay BrownThe author's beloved Orkney is brought vividly to life in this classic collection, peopled with crofters, fishermen, ferrymen and tinkers.