GMB. Selected Poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1977.

96 pp. With a dust-wrapper designed by Patricia Davey.

From the dust-wrapper: "The poems in this volume have been newly chosen by George Mackay Brown from three individual collections and he has included a number of poems previously printed only his earlier Poems New and Selected. The selection thus demonstrates this much admired writer's development from Loaves and Fishes, which appeared in 1959, up to the recently published Winterfold, and notably the growing universality of his vision and the mastery with which he traces the living continuity of past and present."

Contents: From Loaves and Fishes (1959): The Old Women — The Death of Peter Esson — The Masque of Bread — Gregory Hero — Port of Venus — The Stranger — Hamnavoe — Halcro — The Lodging — The Heavenly Stones — The Exile — Elegy — Chapel between Cornfield and Shore — Daffodils ¶ From The Year of the Whale (1965): The Funeral of Ally Flett — Shipwreck — Culloden — Horseman and Seals — The Abbot — The Poet — Farm Labourer — Old Fisherman with Guitar — The Year of the Whale — Trout Fisher — The Twelve Piers of Hamnavoe — Hamnavoe Market — Country Girl — Weather Bestiary — The Hawk — The Condemned Well — The Sailor, the Old Woman, and the Girl — Harald — Ikey on the People of Hellya ¶ From Fishermen with Ploughs (1971): Taxman — Foldings — Love Letter — The Laird's Falcon — The Scarecrow in the Schoolmasters Oats — Haddock Fishermen — A Child's Calendar — Girl — Fisherman's Bride — Beachcomber — Dead Fires ¶ From Poems New and Selected (1971): The Five Voyages of Arnor — Our Lady of the Waves — Viking Testament — The Coat — Carol — Kirkyard — Sea Orpheus — The Masque of Princes — Runes from a Holy Island — Runes from the Island of Horses — Tinkers — Three Songs from a Play.

Reviews: Eric Mathieson, Ambit, no. 72 (1977): 69. — Anthony Burgess, Spectator 239 (6 August 1977): 29. — Iain Crichton Smith, Glasgow Herald, 11 August 1977. — Anne Stevenson, Listener 98 (13 October 1977): 487. — Norman Nicholson, Scottish Review 2, no. 8 (Winter, 1977): 44. — Desmond Graham, Stand 19, no. 1 (1977–78): 75–76. — Robert Preston Wells, Lines Review (September 1979): 5–11.

Digital version: Internet Archive.

Copies: Bodleian Library [28001 e.12293] — Library of Congress [PR6052.R59 A17 1977 OVERFLOWA5S].