George Mackay Brown, Poet and Novelist, Died.

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.

Selected works

Poetry collections

• The Storm (1954)
• Loaves and Fishes (1959)
• The Year of the Whale (1965)
• Fishermen with Ploughs (1971)
• Poems New and Selected (1971)
• Winterfold (1976)
• Voyages (1983)
• The Wreck of the Archangel (1989)
• Tryst on Egilsay (1989)
• Brodgar Poems (1992)
• Foresterhill (1992)
• Following a Lark (1996)
• Water (1996)
• Travellers: poems (2001)
• Collected Poems (2005)

Short story collections

• A Calendar of Love (1967)
• A Time to Keep (1969)
• Hawkfall (1974)
• The Sun’s Net (1976)
• Andrina and Other Stories (1983)
• The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (1989)
• The Sea-King’s Daughter (1991)
• Winter Tales (1995)
• The Island of the Women and Other Stories (1998)
• Simple Fire (2021)

Plays

• A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
• Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)

Novels

• Greenvoe (1972)
• Magnus (1973)
• Time in a Red Coat (1984)
• The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
• Vinland (1992)
• Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) shortlisted for Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society

Essays collections and autobiography

• An Orkney Tapestry (1969)
• Letters from Hamnavoe (1975)
• Under Brinkie’s Brae (1979)
• Portrait of Orkney (1981)
• Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979–91 (1992)
• For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (1997)
• Stained Glass Windows (1998)
• Northern Lights (1999) (Includes Poetry)
• The First Wash of Spring (2006)

Children’s story collection

• The Two Fiddlers (1974)
• Pictures in the Cave (1977)
• Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)

Discography

• For the Islands I Sing