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George Mackay Brown holds a very sweet place in my heart, though I was never fortunate enough to meet the man. My first awareness of him was in about I was researching Orkney for a book I hoped to write, and George kept popping up. I stumbled across his Under Brinkie's Brae from my home in America.
Entranced by everyday life in Orkney as George described it, I devoured his writings. From the beginning, "under Brinkie's Brae " was almost a magical incantation to me. It seemed to hold the power to whisk me away from the pressing cares of that day into a simpler kind of life. To read our story, go to this page. Skip down the page here if you're in a hurry - you'll find GMB-related sites to visit in Orkney. George enjoyed an idyllic childhood:.
There, on the pier, fishermen worked at their lines and lobster-creels … The little town was full of shops in the s, some of them sweetie-shops kept by old women. These were places of delight … I [was] as wild a boy as any … we all went free as birds between the hills and the piers. Along with his friends George devoured the comics of D. Thomson — Wizard, Rover, Hotspur and others, and was from the age of twelve a dedicated smoker.
He found school constrictive and boring, but there were gleams of promise:. George grew to enjoy the works of Shakespeare and the poems of Keats and Shelley. During his time as a patient in the sanatorium in Kirkwall he wrote poems, articles and book reviews for The Orkney Herald. He read deeply in Orkney history, in particular the Viking sagas, on which he honed his literary style.
On regaining his strength George continued to write — and discovered the joys and sorrows of alcohol:. The warden of the college, the Orkney-born poet Edwin Muir, thought so highly of his poems that he passed them on to the Hogarth Press, and they were published in the volume Loaves and Fishes. See more about Orkney's poet Edwin Muir and his lost island paradise here. Still dogged by tuberculosis George then spent six years at Edinburgh University, achieving an honours degree in English and two years of post-graduate study.