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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781904598268

RRP: £25.00

PAGES: 496

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 1, 2005

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The Poems of Norman MacCaig

Ewen McCaig

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. This book is the third edition of “MacCaig’s Collected Poems” and is edited by his son Ewen. With 778 poems, 100 of them previously unpublished, this is a remarkable collection.

Reviews of The Poems of Norman MacCaig

'A wonderful book which will give years of pleasure.' DOUGLAS DUNN 'An ongoing education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry' SEAMUS HEANEY 'Magisterial' THE HERALD

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Norman MacCaig

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.