My sister Lucina Prestige, who has died aged 80, was a founder of Renaissance Press, which published the work of such poets as George Bruce and Alan Spence, with illustrations by Elizabeth Blackadder and John Bellany.
Bruce was significant in Lucina’s life. The first publication they made together – Lucina as editor – was Pursuit: Poems by George Bruce 1986-98 (1999), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish book of the year. This led to Polygon commissioning Lucina to edit Today Tomorrow: The Collected Poems of George Bruce 1933-2000 (2001), with a preface by Edwin Morgan and illustrated by Bellany. Two limited edition portfolios of Bruce’s poems and Bellany’s etchings followed: Woman of the North Sea and The Sacred Sea.
