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Biographical note
Brian Murray read English at Glasgow University and was a teacher in the West of Scotland. With Archie Bevan he has been editing the unpublished and uncollected work of George Mackay Brown - seven volumes to date, with an eighth just completed.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.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