'Carve the Runes'
George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. Admired by readers and fellow writers alike, he played an integral part in the flowering of Scottish literature during the last fifty years. This year's Johnsmas Foy is a celebration of George's literary legacy featuring writers and musicians from within Orkney and further afield. Compiled by Sandra Ballantine and Simon Hall.
Five writers paid tribute to GMB as inspiration and influence of their work. Two novelists, Margaret Elphinstone and John Aberdein, read extracts from their novels. Fiona MacInnes and Morag MacInnes read poetry, and Jenny Skene read her award winning story To an Orkney Vole.
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John Aberdein read from his novel in progress, set in 1968 in his home town of Aberdeen. His first novel Amande's Bed won the Saltire First Book of of the Year Award 2005. |
| Morag MacInnes is
a writer and lecturer who lives in Orkney. She was runner up in the 2004 Ashram Awards and her poem Here Lives a Painter earned her place in The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2006. She is currently working on a novel. |
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| Fiona MacInnes
was born and educated in Stromness. Her first collection of poetry To
Step Among Wrack was published in 1988. |
Jenny Skene was born in Orkney. At age 17 she is the 2006 winner of the Marjorie Linklater Award for her story To an Orkney Vole. |
