CARVE THE RUNES: SELECTED POEMS

In this new Selected Poems, Kathleen Jamie explores the multi-faceted world of George Mackay Brown's Orkney, the poet's lifelong home and inspiration. Brown believed from the outset that poets had a social role, and his true task was to fulfil that role. Art was sprung from the community, and his role as poet was to know that community and to sing its stories. But there was also room for introspection: the poet's task was simultaneously to 'interrogate silence'.