Beyond the SwelkieMackintosh, Jim, and Paul S. Philippou, eds. Beyond the Swelkie: A Collection of Poems and Writings Celebrating the Centenary of George Mackay Brown (1921–1996). Perth: Tippermuir Books, 2021.

Paperback. A collection of poems and essays (some previously published) in honor of GMB.

Contents: "Editors' Note" — Asif Khan, "Foreword" — Fiona MacInnes, "Preface: George Mackay Brown" ¶ POETRY AND SHORT PROSE — Morag Anderson, "Awaiting the Summer Walker" — Aileen Ballantyne, "Masks: A Zoom Conversation with George Mackay Brown" — Gabrielle Barnby, "Strata" and "The Gate of the Kirkyard Rattles" — Pamela Beasant, "St Magnus Day, 1996" — Norman Bissell, "I Can Still See You" — David Bleiman, "A Wee Goldie" — Helen Boden, "Beside the Oceans of Time" — Colin Bramwell, "On Being Pushed into Skara Brae" — Niall Campbell, "Bear, Dancing" — A. C. Clarke, "Portrait of George Mackay Brown" — Stewart Conn, "The Ocean of Time" — Laura T. Fyfe, "River Watch" — Magi Gibson, "Beachcomber 2021" — Jo Gilbert, "Nae Rhyme or Reason" — John Glenday, "Caithness" — Yvonne Gray, "Burns o Innertun" — George Gunn, "North of Troy" — Mandy Haggith, "Knap of Howar, Papa Westray" — Nat Hall, "Pinnie's Close" — Simon W Hall, "Seekan back tae Rackwick," "Mayburn Court, March 22nd 1996," and "Dramman at the Nose o the Yard" — Jenifer Harley, "Call o the Sea" — Anne Hay, "Pneuma" — W. N. Herbert, "Islander" — Andy Jackson, "Andrina" — Caroline Johnstone, "Dark Plastic" — Marjorie Lotfi, "Holds off the Sky" — Christine De Luca, "Licht Bringer"/"Light Bringer" — Marcas Mac an Tuairneir/Mark Spencer Turner, "Dileab an Stoirm"/"The Legacy of a Storm" — Pàdraig MacAoidh/Peter Mackay, "An Dìleab"/"The Legacy" — Hamish MacDonald, "Mangurstadh" — Fiona MacInnes, "The Camera Lies" — Ross MacKay, "A Reply to the Poet" — Rob A. Mackenzie, "Portobello Beach" — Jim Mackintosh, "Beyond the Swelkie" — Paul Malgrati, "Orcadia's Continent" — Marion McCready, "Snow on the Shingle" — Beth McDonough, "Beachcombers" — Jane McKie, "Gorse Bushes" — Hugh McMillan, "The Poet" — Julie McNeill, "Silence" — Victoria McNulty, "No Beaches to Comb" — Andrew Motion, "Writing" — Duncan Stewart Muir, "Solastalgia" — Donald S. Murray, "Three Winter Poems: The Christmas Mermaid, A Dove at New Year, An Island Christmas" — Hamish Napier, "Small Isles" — Màiri Anna NicUalraig/Mary Ann Kennedy, "Fear a' Bhàta – Cèilidh Buan"/"The Boatman" — Stuart A Paterson, "Leaving the Island" — Nalini Paul, "Warbeth Walk" — Louise Peterkin, "Ambergris" — Sheenagh Pugh, "The Lit Room" — John Quinn, "Archipelagos" — Larissa Reid, "The Wound and the Gift" — Olive M Ritch, "Khyber Pass" — James Robertson, "A Fatal Blessing" — Gail Ross, "It's a Long Way" — Finola Scott, "His Mouth Full of Dying Fires" — Leela Soma, "Madras Morning" — Ian Spring, "Sonnet" — Courtney Stoddart, "Selkies, and my Sorrow" — Sheila Templeton, "For George Mackay Brown" — Samuel Tongue, "George Mackay Brown X Gerard Manley Hopkins" — Lynn Valentine, "Orkney Storms" and Pilgrimage" — Stephen Watt, "Blackening" — Jay Whittaker, "One Writer's Day, Early 2021" — Christie Williamson, "Draan Trow" — Neil Young, "Making a Homeland" ¶ ESSAYS — Pamela Beasant, "Weaving the Threads" — Linden Bicket, "'Rhythms and Images and Legends Are Everywhere': George Mackay Brown's Orkney" — Erin Farley, "The Everyday and the Eternal" — Ingrid Leonard, "Here Lies Betty Corrigall" — Stuart MacBeath, "George Mackay Brown: A Biographical Note" — Cáit O'Neill McCullagh — An Orkney Worlding: George Mackay Brown's Poetics as Waymarkers for Navigating the Anthropocene — Alison Miller, "Notes of a Failed Nature Writer" — Alexander Moffat, "George Mackay Brown: A Portrait" — Gerda Stevenson, "Filming The Storm Watchers during Covid" — Kenny Taylor, "The Wind that Shakes the Islands" — Ros Taylor, "My Uncle George" — Liz Treacher, "'The Faithful Fishermen Sailed in their Frail Boats Along the Atlantic Fringes'" ¶ POSTSCRIPT — Andrew Greig, "'Leaving Harbour.'"

Reviews: Bernie Bell, Orkney News, 27 September 2021 [Web]. — Valentina Bold, Bella Caledonia, 15 October 2021 [Web]. — Sheenagh Pugh, Live Journal, 17 October 2021 [Web].