This book is a celebration of MacCaig's life - 2010 is the hundredth anniversary of his birth - and it features 100 of his best poems, chosen by his son Ewen. By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honoured by an OBE and the Queen's Medal for Poetry.
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Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh in 1910. His formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh University and then trained to be a teacher at Moray House. Having spent years educating young children he later taught Creative Writing, first at Edinburgh University, then at the University of Stirling. He died in 1996.
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This slim volume, issued as a centenary celebration of the MacCaig's birth, is both a fitting tribute and a perfect introduction to the work of one of the grand old men of British poetry. Vivid with highland landscapes and shot through with fiery feelings modestly expressed, Norman MacCaig's poems are musical, wry and haunting. Whether lamenting a dead collie, or celebrating Buddha-like frogs he is a master of observation: his voice is intimate, compassionate and brimming with awe for the natural world. Though he died at a fine age, we can still mourn him. 'I look at the face of death,' he writes in Myself After Her Death 'and say 'I hate you' to destroy such wonders.' Buy this book for yourself, or even better buy it for others, and you can be sure it will be cherished.
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Really enjoy this book, why was I not taught this at School all these years ago, taken 50 years to find such poetry. Many thanks to Andrew Greig book "At the Green Loch for the introduction."
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