Between Mountain and Sea: Poems From Assynt - Softcover

Norman MacCaig; Ewen McCaig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846974496 ISBN 13: 9781846974496

Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), 2018

Synopsis

'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is here that he would spend many a summer on family holidays, walking the hills and fishing the lochs. MacCaig's fresh eye saw remarkable newness even in the everyday and each poem is a tiny revelation, a new look at an old friend. This collection celebrates, renews, and rediscovers Norman MacCaig's Assynt.

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About the Author

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. Roderick Watson was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. A recently retired professor at Stirling University, he has lectured and published widely on modern Scottish literature and currently co-edits the Journal of Stevenson Studies. His main poetry collections are True History on the Walls (1977) and Into the Blue Wavelengths (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846974496
• ISBN 13: 9781846974496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Roderick Watson