#georgemackaybrown — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #georgemackaybrown, aggregated by home.social.
-
“Brown’s headstone tells us who and what he was – a poet. It doesn’t say that he was Orkney’s laureate, singer of the islands, to the islanders a bringer of song, but then no-one coming to this spot would need telling.”
—Peter Alan Ross visits George Mackay Brown’s grave
https://smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-finds-4
#Scottish #literature #poets #Orkney #20thcentury #GeorgeMackayBrown #grave #cemetery
-
To have carved on the days of our vanity
A sun
A ship
A star
A cornstalkAlso a few marks
From an ancient forgotten time
A child may read…—“A Work for Poets”: the final poem of George Mackay Brown (1921–1996) who died #OTD, 13 April
Published in CARVE THE RUNES (Polygon, 2021)
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/carve-the-runes/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #poets #Orkney #20thcentury #GeorgeMackayBrown
-
Remember, man, that thou art dust.
The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.
A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.
And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
His forehead is smeared,
Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils…—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
Published in TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #religion #GeorgeMackayBrown #Orkney #AshWednesday
-
On the loom of winter, shadows
gather in a web; then the
shuttle of St. Lucy makes a
pause; a dark weave
fills the room…—George Mackay Brown, “Maeshowe: Midwinter”
in FOLLOWING A LARK (John Murray, 1996)5/5
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #GeorgeMackayBrown #midwinter #solstice #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory #neolithic