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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

My father passed with his penny letters, Through closest opening and shutting like legends,

When barbellous with gulls,

Annavo's mourning broke on the salt and d'ar steps.

Herring boats, puffing red sails,

The tillers of cold horizons, leaned down the gullgaunt tide,

and threw dark nets on sudden silver harvests.

Poet and writer George Mackay Brown reading from his poem Ham Navu, which describes his hometown

of Stromness in the Orkney Islands.

Born on the 17th of October 1921, he lived most of his life there and wrote extensively about his beloved

Orkney in poems, novels, plays, letters and newspaper columns. He died in 1996 and is widely considered to be one of Scotland's finest

writers. In this centenary year, many are turning their attention to his large body of work

and continuing to find relevance and meaning. Poet Jim McIntosh is one such person. Here he quotes George's niece, Fiona McKinness.

Well, it was George Bruin for a start. There was none of that Mackay stuff or Georgie.

There was ones that called him Georgie. Posh literary folk came up for sooth and smelt of Cologne.

But nobody can't him here, I thought. Maybe the posh literary folk came up for sooth and smelt a cologne but nobody kent em here i thought maybe the posh folk thought mackay bit with george brun we was no so common you know so i just love

that that he was the local lad for yordney and he was george brunty ass and we loved him for it

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