George Mackay Brown, who spent most of his life on Orkney, was a remarkable writer who gained a wide readership. The first comprehensive study of his work as a whole, this book uses description and analysis, including comparative study of versions of key works, to chart the development of Brown's ideas and style, identifying phases in his work.
'Interrogation of Silence' demonstrates Brown's remarkable gifts being exercised in pursuit of 'the poet's true task', and shows how the writer's repeated revisions of his work reflect his enduring concern to achieve perfection of form and expression. Absorbing and accessible to all, this is the essential book for an understanding of a lifetime's writing from one of the twentieth century's great writers and poets.