 Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound.His poem "Hamnavoe" is set in the town, and is in part a memorial to his father John, a local postman.Stromness is referred to in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece "Farewell to Stromness", a piano interlude from "The Yellow Cake Revue", which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area.