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PUBLISHER: Vintage
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780701166397
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 161
PUBLICATION DATE:
October 2, 1997
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Selected Poems
This collection of Norman McCaig’s poetry from over 40 years is an introduction to his work. It shifts between the lochs and mountains of the highlands and the cityscapes of Edinburgh, and between love poems and what MacCaig called the unemphatic marvels of the natural world.
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