Seed Beneath the Snow

This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them. It also provides a background to his poem ''A New Child: ECL 11 June 1993'' (included in the anthology Following a Lark), which he wrote for Joanna''s daughter. There are many small details of...