Essays
Norman Bissell's essays and articles on cultural issues and book and music reviews have been published in The Herald, The Scotsman, The Scottish Educational Journal, The Keelie, Cencrastus, Chapman, Edinburgh Review, island, Northwords, West Coast, Classwork, Earthlines, Luing Newsletter, Stravaig, Hi-Arts Northings, in the books The Reckoning and Ainmeil Thar Cheudan on Sorley MacLean, and in the papers of the Scottish Trade Union Research Network.
George Orwell: The Socialist Who Loved Nature from Scottish Centre for Geopoetics on Vimeo.
He edited and wrote the Introduction to Coast to Coast, Interviews and Conversations 1985-1995 by Kenneth White and co-edited and contributed to Grounding a World: Essays on the work of Kenneth White published by Alba Editions. He received a Creative Scotland award to research and write a memoir about living on the Isle of Luing and his involvement in geopoetics in Scotland over many years. It's now been published by Alba Editions as Living on an Island Expressing the Earth and can be purchased on the Shop page.
You can read some of his essays here:
On Open World Poetics, Edinburgh Review.
On Geopoetics and George Orwell.
On living on an island: A Place To Think, A Place To Be.
Reviews
Some of his reviews can be read here:
Sorley Maclean Centenary Conference
The Big Orkney Song Project
The An Tobar Sessions
A review by Graham Leicester of Norman Bissell's talk On the Atlantic Edge to the International Futures Forum in 2013.