Media release: Storm chasers team up to celebrate George Mackay Brown’s centenary
A SEARCH has been launched to locate as many copies as possible of George Mackay Brown’s first collection of poems, as part of celebrations to mark the centenary of the writer’s birth.
Brown, who was born in October 1921, was a poet, author and dramatist, whose works reflect his roots in Orkney.
In 1954, just 300 copies of ‘The Storm and other poems’ were printed, at the poet’s own expense.
Now, BBC Radio Orkney and the George Mackay Brown Fellowship have teamed up to try and track down as many copies as possible, and hear the stories of how and where they’ve survived.
New poetry collections by Sean Borodale, Karen Hughes, David John Keighley, and others by 14 May 2021
Martyn Halsall reviews collections of work by contemporary poets
EACH of these seven collections of poetry could be labelled as “spiritual”, from the meditated observations of the minute as reflected in mindfulness to a more traditional Christian engagement through worship and scriptural text. Together, these books could compose a symposium, about how any faith community could engage with the convalescent world, if and when plague recedes.
Sean Borodale pays microscopic attention to insects in
Inmates. His poems are fragmentary, bordering on the abstract. His concentrated writing reflects close observations from a miniature world in which the human is peripheral. He sets out his writer’s role in Tick Hatchery: “To examine, / to more closely microscope the waiting”.
Chris Connelly – Photo Credit: Derick Smith; Monica Queen – Photo Credit: Johnny Smillie; Composite image by Alexander Kretov
It’s always nice to be privy to an artist’s plan well ahead of their realization. It’s even cooler when the said artist happens to be a musical legend of sorts, meaning with respect to multiple genres at once.
The artist in question – Scottish alternative music legend
Chris Connelly and, whose latest project has yet to see the light of day publicly. We do have the honor of being the ones to reveal what he’s been getting up to for the past few years with Scottish vocalist