The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown

Extraordinarily effective * Robert McCrum, The Observer *
A brilliant writer * Spectator *
George Mackay Brown really does possess the magician's touch * Observer *
A dazzling writer * The Guardian *
Undoubtedly the most important document of his work to be produced so far. * Shetland Times, Malachy Tallack. *
George Mackay Brown has added uniquely and steadfastly to the riches of poetry in English: his sense of the world and his way with words are powerfully at one with each other * Seamus Heaney *
The Collected Poems show the range and depth of his work, the beauty of it, "the undersong of terrible holy joy" * Scotsman *
The reader embarks on a voyage - which is how Mackay Brown himself saw his work - through the elemental world of his cliff-girt, craggy isles. * The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston *
Practically every poem has the bite of originality * TLS *
'Mackay Brown was a bardic, celebratory poet who swathed all that he wrote about in a kind of caul of sacredness' * Independent, Michael Glover *
'A must-have... [Mackay Brown] transforms the mundane with a luminous lyricism' * The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston *
'The work has both a severe beauty and mischievous wit' * The Sunday Times *