Selected works George Mackay Brown

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1 selected works

1.1 poetry collections
1.2 short story collections
1.3 plays
1.4 novels
1.5 essays collections , autobiography
1.6 children s story collection
1.7 discography





selected works
poetry collections

the storm (1954)
loaves , fishes (1959)
the year of whale (1965)
fishermen ploughs (1971)
poems new , selected (1971)
winterfold (1976)
voyages (1983)
the wreck of archangel (1989)
tryst on egilsay (1989)
brodgar poems (1992)
foresterhill (1992)
following lark (1996)
water (1996)
travellers: poems (2001)
collected poems (2005)

short story collections

a calendar of love (1967)
a time keep (1969)
hawkfall (1974)
the sun s net (1976)
andrina , other stories (1983)
the masked fisherman , other stories (1989)
the sea-king s daughter (1991)
winter tales (1995)
the island of women , other stories (1998)

plays

a spell green corn (1970)
three plays: loom of light, , voyage of saint brandon (1984)

novels

greenvoe (1972)
magnus (1973)
time in red coat (1984)
the golden bird: 2 orkney stories (1987) won james tait black memorial prize fiction.
vinland (1992)
beside ocean of time (1994) shortlisted booker prize , judged scottish book of year saltire society

essays collections , autobiography

an orkney tapestry (1969)
letters hamnavoe (1975)
under brinkie s brae (1979)
portrait of orkney (1981)
rockpools , daffodils: orcadian diary, 1979–91 (1992)
for islands sing: autobiography (1997)
stained glass windows (1998)
northern lights (1999) (includes poetry)
the first wash of spring (2006)

children s story collection

the 2 fiddlers (1974)
pictures in cave (1977)
six lives of fankle cat (1980)

discography

for islands sing






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