George Mackay Brown
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Born October 17, 1921
Died April 13, 1996 (74 years old)
Stromness, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also known as: George MacKay Brown, George-Mackay Brown
45 books
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Scottish poet
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Newest First
Poems, new and selected
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The poetry of the late James Laughlin (1914-97) spans a period of over sixty years, from the first verses written in his signature "typewriter" metric to the most recent pieces that open his Poems New and Selected. Laughlin reveals himself in his poems as a master of concision, of the well-placed word that penetrates the human heart. Over two hundred and twenty five poems included here show his technical brilliance as well: in short- and long-line poems; in the three-stress verses of his autobiographical "Byways"; in "Epigrams," amatory and otherwise, and "Pentastichs"; in idiosyncratic "(American) French" poems and their translations of his own devising.
Selected poems
D. J. Enright, Jones Very, Herman Melville, Michael S. Harper, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, David Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Paul Celan, Octavio Paz, Boynton, Henry Walcott, Pāratitācan̲, George Mackay Brown, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Dylan Thomas, Saint-John Perse, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sir Philip Sidney, Ennis Rees, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Glassco, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Barnes, Jorge Luis Borges, Niyi Osundare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leah Goldberg, Cyprian Norwid, Yvor Winters, Anne Brontë, Carol Ann Duffy, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Czesław Miłosz, Sister Mary Madeleva, Oxenham, John, Mongane Wally Serote, Michael Rosen, Paul Éluard, Harvey Shapiro, Johannes Bobrowski, Barnabe Googe, Sophocles, Rudyard Kipling, Walter De la Mare, Aldous Huxley, Charles Olson, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Diana Der Hovanessian, D. H. Lawrence, John Keats, Lorna Goodison, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Percy Bysshe Shelley, César Vallejo, Paul Verlaine, Graham, W. S., Ovid, James Arlington Wright, John Ashbery, Анато́лий Александрович Биск, Tomas Tranströmer, John Updike, Gaspara Stampa, Emma Lazarus, W. H. Auden, Lord Byron, Robinson Jeffers, Fergusson, Robert, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Rita Dove, William Shakespeare, Laurie Lee, Carl Sandburg, John Frederick Nims, Langston Hughes, Yves Bonnefoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Conrad Aiken, John Greenleaf Whittier, Eugène Guillevic, Michael Longley, Günter Grass, F. R. Scott, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Muriel Rukeyser, Les A. Murray, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Pinsky, Odysseas Elytis, Pierre Reverdy, Hugo, Richard, Emily Brontë, Seamus Deane, Dannie Abse, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, John Davidson, Rabindranath Tagore, Pádraic H. Pearse, Clarke, Austin, Steve Griffiths, George Crabbe, Fred Wah, Robert Bly, Roy Fuller, Pierre de Ronsard, Gaius Valerius Catullus, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Derek Walcott, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cecil Day-Lewis, Anne Stevenson, David Malouf, Thomas Gray, Emily Dickinson, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Herrick, Oscar Williams, Isaac Watts, Charlotte Brontë, Vernon Phillips Watkins, Rafael Alberti, Jean Garrigue, Zbigniew Herbert, Young, Andrew, A. M. Klein, James Tate, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Mary Mew, Theocritus, Charles Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, George Fetherling, Robert Bringhurst, Gascoyne, David, Robert Henryson, Lewis, Saunders, Pratt, E. J., Rosalía de Castro, Thomas Merton, Edward Robeson Taylor, John Shaw Neilson, Christopher Smart, Ai Weiwei, John Skelton, Kevin Crossley-Holland, U. A. Fanthorpe, Margaret Avison, John Peale Bishop, Al Purdy, Boileau, Vladimir Nabokov, Thompson, Denys, Giacomo Leopardi, Kenneth Rexroth, Adam Czerniawski, Kenneth Koch, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robin Hyde, John Ciardi, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, David John Murray Wright, Thomas Chatterton, William Blake, T. S. Eliot, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Giovanni Pascoli, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stevie Smith, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, John Gay, Emile Nelligan, Henrik Nordbrandt, Ausiàs March, Aaron J. Clarke, Jules Laforgue, Ezra Pound, John Hollander, Christina Georgina Rosetti, George William Russell, Theodore Roethke, Jaime Torres Bodet, Jibanananda Das, Gyula Illyés, Robert Frost, John Milton, Attilio Bertolucci, Federico García Lorca, Sir Walter Scott, Lars Gustafsson, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass, Heinz Piontek, Kenneth Patchen, Bill Bissett, William Peskett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sophie Hannah, António Machado
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For the Islands I Sing
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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1966, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.
Three Plays
Paul Metcalf, David Pinski, Elmer Rice, Ayn Rand, George S. Kaufman, Gerhart Hauptmann, George Mackay Brown, Else Lasker-Schüler, Eugene O'Neill, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, John B Keane, Nikos Kazantzakis, Christopher Fry, Friedrich Hebbel, Ernst Barlach, Max Frisch, Terrence McNally, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, De Filippo, Eduardo, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Girish Raghunath Karnad, Noël Coward, Euripides, Young Jean Lee, Moss Hart, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Howard Zinn, August Wilson, Alan Sillitoe, Kelly, George, Samuel Beckett, Speight, Johnny, Rabindranath Tagore, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, A. A. Milne, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Giraudoux, Derek Walcott, Arthur Wing Pinero, Леонид Николаевич Андреев, Paul Claudel, Clyde Fitch, John Mortimer, Luigi Pirandello, Peter Shaffer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sławomir Mrozek, Padraic Colum, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Arthur L Kopit, Gabriel Marcel, Marguerite Duras, Thornton Wilder, J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Pierre Corneille, [author not identified]
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Six Lives of Fankle the Cat
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Jenny, a lonely Orkney island girl, saves a beautiful black kitten that shares her life and, talking only to her, recounts adventures from its own earlier lives.
Northern Lights
Frederick Spencer Chapman, George Mackay Brown, Nora Roberts, Tim O'Brien, Gilbert Parker, Martha E. H. Rustad, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Philip Pullman, David McCurdy Baird, Roger Vercel
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