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Discover the Magic of Orkney with George Mackay Brown…

It’s been eight years since I last wrote a post about Orkney. It was entitled The Best of Scotland: Orkney but such is the magic of Orkney that it makes you dream again and again…

We discovered Orkney in 2003 and we immediately fell under the spell of the place, a place quite different from […]

March 31st, 2025 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, George Mackay Brown, Orkney | Leave a comment

Authors and books that will make you love Scotland…

January… February…what about sitting by the fireside with a good book when it’s freezing cold outside and the wind is howling ;-). Add to that a cup of tea, coffee or chocolate and you’ll begin to like winter! Unless, of course, you prefer to go out and face the elements. I must admit that when […]

January 31st, 2024 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alexander McCall Smith, Authors, Books, George Mackay Brown, Kenneth White, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses | Leave a comment

A Selection of Scottish Authors & Books for Christmas 2021

How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books?

(Robert Louis Stevenson – From A Child’s Garden of Verses)

I could not have found more charming lines to introduce my new selection of books for Christmas than the above verses written by Robert […]

November 30th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature, George Mackay Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

Birthday Centenary of George Mackay Brown…

Born on 17 October 1921, in Stromness, Orkney, George Mackay Brown, “The Bard of Orkney” would be a hundred years old today. We would like to join his many fans all over the world to celebrate this anniversary and pay homage to the great Scottish poet.

As one of the leading Scottish poets and authors […]

October 17th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, George Mackay Brown, Orkney | Leave a comment

‘Carve the runes and then be content with silence’…

 

 

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A Work for Poets

To have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk

Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read

That not far from the stone A well […]

April 13th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: George Mackay Brown, Orkney, Scottish Graveyards, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses | One comment
 
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