The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman McCaig

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First published in 2010 to mark the centenary of Norman MacCaigs birth, The Many Days aims to strike a balance between representing the much-loved poems that any reader would expect to find in a selected MacCaig, and other less familiar verses.

The collection is arranged to show the range of the poets work in all its variety, from his love of nature and the landscape of the North West Highlands to his life in Edinburgh; from his care for animals and human friendship, to his moments of joy and grief, creative delight and occasional creative dread. Time and again MacCaig returns us to that good place we know as the world, but hardly ever seen so clearly as we do in these marvellous poems.

I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaigs work. It is an ongoing education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry . . . He means poetry to me Seamus Heaney

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'He said so much in so few words Hes perfect poetry to me'

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.