GMB. "Scenes from a Provincial Life." Country Living (London), February 1992, pp. 36–37.

The pleasures of life in a small town (Stromness). "Without the rich imagery that flows from the labour of sailor, farmer, fisherman, l could hardly string two lines together. Those earth-workers and sea-workers stand at the very sources of life, powerful symbols. and it is there that literature and all the arts have their beginning. The writer in a place like Orkney has this great wealth of imagery to draw on."

MS: University of Edinburgh Library (MS 3116.1).