Poetry Cafe 163: George Mackay Brown
27.02.2023
George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996)
Playlist (texts read, music played and references):
Dark Island’, The Lone Piper Mackay Brown: ‘The first house…’, ‘An early memory…’ From ‘The Road Home’ (1946) From ‘Skara Brae: a Time of Drought’ (1987) ‘The Tinker Wife’ (1956) From ‘A Calendar of Love’ (1967) Peter Maxwell Davies: from Symphony no. 2 From ‘The Golden Bird’ (1987) Ron Ferguson: ‘The Wound and the Gift’ (2011) From ‘Greenvoe’ (1972) Bevan & Murray: ‘Northern Lights: a Poet’s Sources’ (1999) From ‘Ships in the Ice’ (1972) From the ‘Orkney Saga’ Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘Hymn to St Magnus’ – Introduzione From ‘For the Islands I Sing’ (1997) ‘Rackwick’ (1950) From ‘An Orkney Tapestry’ (1969) From ‘Chapman’ no. 84 (literary magazine) Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘Farewell to Stromness’ Peter Maxwell Davies: from Symphony no. 1 From ‘Fishermen with Ploughs’ (1972) ‘Beauty of the North’ (Celtic harp) From a letter from GMB to Stella Cartwright (Jan 5, 1964) ‘Stella: For Her Birthday (15 May, 1982)’ From an interview with GMB, Kenneth Steven (BBC Radio 4) ‘Prehistoric Landscape’ ‘Brodgar, Summer 1978’ From ‘A Work for Poets’ Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise’
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Englisch
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