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Beasant, Pamela

Pamela Beasant is a poet, playwright and non-fiction writer. Originally from Glasgow, she has been living in Stromness, Orkney, for many years.

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20221201101515 Pamela Beasant on Stromness Books & Prints, Slightly Foxed Issue 76, Iain Ashman

A Northern Survivor

Pamela Beasant on Stromness Books & Prints, Orkney

Nestled in the heart of Orkney’s second largest town, on a main street uncoiling, as the Orcadian poet and writer George Mackay Brown described it, ‘like a sailor’s rope’, Stromness Books & Prints has sev­eral claims to fame. It’s the UK’s most northerly independent bookshop, and it’s ‘Scotland’s only drive-in bookshop’, as claimed by Tam MacPhail, who ran the business for many years. (This claim is based on the fact that the main street is narrow enough for drivers to stop outside the shop, open the window, shout a request through the door and be served without leaving the car.)
20170301155622 Sylvia Wishart, ‘The Ross Puma ashore in Hoy’ - Pamela Beasant on George Mackay Brown

A Song of the Islands

Pamela Beasant on George Mackay Brown, An Orkney Tapestry

An Orkney Tapestry sits quietly at the heart of George Mackay Brown’s prolific output as a writer of poetry, stories, novels and plays, created over a life that was longer and richer than he or anyone else expected. (Following a diagnosis of TB as a young man, before the introduction of penicillin, he must have felt he was living on borrowed time for almost all his adult life.) For those who have never read him, this small book about his native Orkney serves as a wonderful introduction. For those who have already fallen under his spell, it is something they return to and quote from, and love like an old friend.

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