Publisher's Synopsis
This book represents one of the finest collection of poems by the great Scottish poet, George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996. Mackay Brown won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award for 1994, the year he was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize for "Beside the Ocean of Time". Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney had this to say about Mackay Brown: "Since the beginning of his career he has added uniquely and steadfastly to the riches of poetry in English.
