George Mackay Brown has chosen these poems from two published volumes, and added fourteen new poems. Though he has always lived in Orkney and written out of it, his work is not parochial, for it moves through large regions of time, from legendary days to the present, and speaks for many generations of fishermen and farmers. The saga voice blends happily with more modern notes in these quietly eloquent poems.
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