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George Mackay Brown was arguably Scotland's finest poet and writer of the twentieth century. He spent much of his life on Orkney, where he wrote and published extensively. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize in 1988, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year in 1994. He died in 1996, having published over 40 works, including poetry, plays, novels, short stories, essays, children's books and his autobiography. Surprisingly, given George Mackay Brown's wide readership and acclaim, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of his work, taken as a whole. Brian and Rowena Murray chart the development of Brown's ideas and style, through description and analysis, identifying phases in his work, including comparative study of versions of key works. They demonstrate Brown's remarkable gifts exercised in pursuit of 'The poet's true task', taking the writer's frequent references to his quest for silence and repeated revisions of even published and well received work, to reflect his enduring concern to achieve perfection of form and expression.

Rowena Murray graduated in Scottish Literature and Fine Art from the University of Glasgow. She studied and lectured in the United States, gaining a PhD for a thesis on George Mackay Brown, and she is now Reader in the Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Strathclyde. She has published extensively, on literature, on writing in academic research, teaching and educational development. Brian Murray read English at Glasgow University and was a teacher in the West of Scotland. With Archie Bevon he has been editing the unpublished and uncollected work of George Mackay Brown -- seven volumes to date, with an eighth just completed. Like his daughter Rowena, he was a long-term friend of the writer.