Joanna Ramsey - The Seed Beneath the Snow: Remembering George Mackay Brown

Allardyce, Keith. Sea Haven: Stromness in the Orkney Islands. Photographs by Keith Allardyce and text by Bryce Wilson, with a foreword by George Mackay Brown (Orkney: Orkney Press for Stromness Community Council, 1992).

Bold, Alan. George Mackay Brown. Modern Writers series (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1978).

Brown, George Mackay. Andrina and Other Stories (London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983).

Brown, George Mackay. Beside the Ocean of Time (London: John Murray, 1994).

Brown, George Mackay Brown. A Calendar of Loveand Other Stories (London: Hogarth Press, 1967).

Brown, George Mackay. The Collected Poems of GeorgeMackay Brown. Edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray (London: John Murray, 2005).

Brown, George Mackay. The First Wash of Spring (London and Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2006).

Brown, George Mackay. Fishermen with Ploughs: A Poem Cycle (London: Hogarth Press, 1971).

Brown, George Mackay. Following a Lark: Poems (London: John Murray, 1996).

Brown, George Mackay. For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008). First published in London by John Murray in 1997.

Brown, George Mackay Brown. Letters from Hamnavoe (London and Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2002). First published by Gordon Wright in 1975.

Brown, George Mackay. Letters to Gypsy (Nairn: Balnain Books, 1990).

Brown, George Mackay. Loaves and Fishes (London: Hogarth Press, 1959).

Brown, George Mackay. Magnus: A Novel (London: Hogarth Press, 1974).

Brown, George Mackay. The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (London: John Murray, 1989).

Brown, George Mackay. Northern Lights: A Poets Sources. Edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2007). First published by John Murray in 1999.

Brown, George Mackay. An Orkney Tapestry. Drawings by Sylvia Wishart (London: Victor Gollancz, 1969).

Brown, George Mackay Brown. Portrait of Orkney. New ed. Photographs by Gunnie Moberg and drawings by Erlend Brown (London: John Murray, 1988). First published in 1981.

Brown, George Mackay. The Realms of Gold. In Chapman, special issue on GMB, no. 60 (Spring 1990), pp. 2431.

Brown, George Mackay. Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary 19791991 (Edinburgh: Gordon Wright, 1992).

Brown, George Mackay. Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1984).

Brown, George Mackay. Time in a Red Coat (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986). First published by Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1984.

Brown, George Mackay. A Time to Keep and Other Stories (London: Hogarth Press, 1976).

Brown, George Mackay. Travellers: Poems. Edited with an introduction by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray (London: John Murray, 2001).

Brown, George Mackay. The Wreck of the Archangel: Poems (London: John Murray, 1989).

Catlin, Angela. Natural Light: Portraits of Scottish Writers (Edinburgh: Paul Harris/Waterfront, 1985).

Ferguson, Ron. George Mackay Brown: The Wound and the Gift (Edinburgh: St Andrews Press, 2011).

Fergusson, Maggie. George Mackay Brown: The Life (London: John Murray, 2006; paperback edition, 2007).

Moberg, Gunnie, and George Mackay Brown. Orkney: Pictures and Poems (Grantown-on-Spey: Colin Baxter Photography, 1996).

Murray, Rowena, and Brian Murray. Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Mackay Brown (London: John Murray, 2004).

Ramsey, Joanna. In Memory of George Mackay Brown (Glasgow: Galdragon Press, 1998).

Ramsey, Joanna. Walking on Hoy (Glasgow: Galdragon Press, 2002).

Rendall, Robert. Collected Poems. Edited and introduction by John Flett Brown and Brian Murray (London and Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2012).

Shoal and Sheaf: Orkneys Pictorial Heritage. Selection and commentary by David M. N. Tinch, photographic reproduction by David Mackie, and an introduction by George Mackay Brown (Kirkwall: Orkney Library, 1988).

Sylvia Wishart: A Study. With an essay by Mel Gooding, an introduction by Neil Firth, and personal recollections by Ola Gorie and Elsie Seatter (Stromness: Pier Arts Centre, 2012).

Joanna Ramseys poetry and short fiction have appeared in Chapman, New Writing Scotland and other magazines and anthologies. Two pamphlet collections of poems have been published by the Galdragon Press, Glasgow: In Memory of George Mackay Brown (1998) and Walking on Hoy (2002). She lives in Orkney and also works as a copy-editor for academic publishers.

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In Memory of George Mackay Brown

Walking on Hoy

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For Emma, with my love