"Hamnavoe" is a poem by the Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.
It is one of his best-known works[1] and is learned off by heart by many Orkney children at school.
Hamnavoe is the Viking name for the town of Stromness, where Brown spent most of his life.
In 2005, a memorial plaque to George Mackay Brown was unveiled in the Writers' Museum, on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.
[4] In 2009, the poem was selected by the BBC as representative of George Mackay Brown and his relationship with "place", and became the subject of a documentary introduced by Owen Sheers in the series A Poet’s Guide to Britain.