Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979-91 - Hardcover

Brown, George Mackay

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9780903065764: Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979-91

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ISBN 10: 0903065762 ISBN 13: 9780903065764

Publisher: Gordon Wright Publishing Ltd, 1998

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A selection of 300 weekly diary columns written for 'The Orcadian' newspaper from 1979 to 1991. Every sentence is honed to perfection, his choice of words and images a delight.

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Read this book and discover the poet, his sources and his muse. You won't be disappointed. -- The Scots Magazine, 1992

About the Author:

George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness in 1921. He was at Newbattle Abbey College when Edwin Muir was Warden. He read English at Edinburgh and did post-graduate work on Gerard Manley Hopkins. He was known for his poetry, short stories, plays and novels, and won many prizes including in 1987 the James Tait Black prize for his novel 'The Golden Bird'. He died in 1996.

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