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A Poet's Guide to Britain

A Poet's Guide to Britain - Season 1 Episode 3

A Poet's Guide to Britain 2009 -

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Overview:George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996, was the great poetic voice of the Orkneys and one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. Sheers travels up to the place the locals call the Venice of the North, the Orkney town of Stromness, which was Mackay Brown's home and the backdrop for much of his work, including his great poem Hamnavoe. In Hamnavoe, the Viking name for Stromness, Mackay Brown takes the reader on a nostalgic and blustery tour of the town in the footsteps of his father, the local postman. Sheers uses the poem as a tour guide to Mackay Brown's Orkney life and work, exploring the narrow streets where George was born and wrote his first poems and taking diversions to the great cathedral of St Magnus, the Norse patron saint of the islands and the remote island of Rackwick. The poem opens up a moving story of a father and son and showcases Mackay Brown's exquisite, concise, gem-like writing.

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First Air Date: May 04, 2009 Last Air date: Jun 08, 2009 Season: 1 Season Episode: 6 Episode Runtime: 26:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 0 users Popularity: 0.34 Language: en

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