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The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig

The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig

by NormanMacCaig (Author), RobertWatson (Editor), RoderickWatson (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $15.85
Synopsis

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 a celebration of MacCaig's life - 2010 is the hundredth anniversary of his birth - and it features 100 of his best poems, edited by his son Ewen.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Published: 01 Nov 2010
ISBN 10: 1846971713
ISBN 13: 9781846971716

Media Reviews
'MacCaig is the poet who speaks to me most clearly of the Scotland I know. He had a strange gritty reserve but also a passion about landscape and the way people lived. I find his poetry constantly energising' - James Naughtie, The Daily Express
Author Bio
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.