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Everywhere she dies. Everywhere I go she dies.
No sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain
but has her death in it.—Norman MacCaig, “Memorial”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)Today, 30 August, is Grief Awareness Day
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A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
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He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.And another, and another.
He couldn't stop.He wasn't trying to fill the sea.
He wasn't trying to empty the beach.He was just throwing away,
nothing else but…—Norman MacCaig, “Small boy”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
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Marco Fazzini & Alan Riach: For the Poetry of Norman MacCaig
8 June, University of Glasgow. Free.Marco Fazzini in conversation with Alan Riach about a new bilingual selected edition of Norman MacCaig.
#Scottish #literature #translation #Italian #NormanMacCaig #poetry #poetryintranslation
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Book launch:
the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig7 June, The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
This new publication contains an introductory appreciation of MacCaig's poetry by his translator, Marco Fazzini, & a preface by Seamus Heaney.
Marco will be joined by a number of poets reading MacCaig's work in both their original English and new Italian translations.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #NormanMacCaig #translation #Italian
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“The more time you spend here in the Highlands, the more you recognise and realise and come to feel yourself part of the different layers of the land [… people] see it as wild and untameable, when in actual fact it is very much a human landscape”
—Annie Worsley recommends her best five books on the Scottish Highlands
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/scottish-highlands-annie-worsley/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books
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A filth of leaves, she said, a froth, she said
Of sudsy flowers, and there’s your mawkish Spring.
Oh, barebone tree, what has it done to you?
Black field, you’re gone but for remembering…—Norman MacCaig, “Green stain”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring
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Such days, when trees run downwind,
their arms stretched before them.Such days, when the sun’s in a drawer
and the drawer locked…—Norman MacCaig, “February – not everywhere”
from Poems on the Undergroundhttps://poemsontheunderground.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/February-Poems-Leaflet.pdf
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood
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I nod and nod to my own shadow and thrust
A mountain down and down.
Between my feet a loch shines in the brown,
Its silver paper crinkled and edged with rust…—Norman MacCaig, “Climbing Suilven”
from BETWEEN MOUNTAIN AND SEA: Poems From Assynt (Birlinn, 2018)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/between-mountain-and-sea/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig
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Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
Aly Bain, Andrew Greig & Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly
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One drops
in a bunker,
another on his doorstep,
Christmas morning, shovelling snow…—Andrew Greig, “Norman’s Goodnight”
from This Life, This Life: New & Selected Poems 1976–2006 (Bloodaxe Books, 2006Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan
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Anette Degott’s talk ‘“No Extra Words” – The Scottish Poet Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)’, recorded on 16 December
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“No Extra Words“ – The Scottish Poet Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)
16 Dec, free onlineAnette Degott looks at the life & work of Norman MacCaig
via Scotland HUB at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz -
The night tinkles like ice in glasses.
Leaves are glued to the pavement with frost.
The brown air fumes at the shop windows,
Tries the doors, and sidles past…—Norman MacCaig, “November night, Edinburgh”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2011)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #November #winter #Edinburgh #normanmacCaig
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Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
Aly Bain, Billy Connolly & Andrew Greig seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail
12/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #flyfishing
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Norman MacCaig introduces and reads two poems, c1990. The first, “Tourist & Landlord” (1988), is previously unpublished. The second, “Two Men at Once” (1989), is in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) – via the Scottish Poetry Library
11/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi-GTC7gHa4
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He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.And another, and another.
He couldn’t stop…—Norman MacCaig, “Small boy”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)10/12
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At the Place for Pulling up Boats
(one word in Gaelic) the tide is full.
It seeps over the grass, stealthy as a robber.
Which it is…—Norman MacCaig, “Two Thieves”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)9/12
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Everywhere she dies. Everywhere I go she dies.
No sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain
but has her death in it.—Norman MacCaig, “Memorial”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)8/12
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig
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I look across the table and think
(fiery with love)
Ask me, go on, ask me
to do something impossible…—Norman MacCaig, “Incident”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)7/12
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig
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From the corner of Scotland I know so well
I see Edinburgh sprawling like seven cats
on its seven hills beside the Firth of Forth…—Norman MacCaig, “Assynt & Edinburgh”
in BETWEEN MOUNTAIN & SEA: Poems From Assynt (Birlinn, 2018)6/12
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The Poetry of Norman MacCaig
Prof Alan Riach from the University of Glasgow discusses MacCaig’s work at our 2013 Schools Conference
5/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lynPPqmyAM
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She sailed in the dinghy like a proper sea-dog.
Where’s a burn? – she’s first on the other side.
She flowed through fences like a piece of black wind…—Norman MacCaig, “Praise of a collie”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)4/12
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Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic
very loud and very fast.
I could not answer her –
I could not understand her…—Norman MacCaig, “Aunt Julia”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)3/12
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Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position
In this film from 1977, the poet Norman MacCaig talks about his work to Magnus Magnusson & John MacInnes.
Available online via the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive2/12
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2802
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig
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Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was born #OTD, 14 November. A self-described “Zen Calvinist”, when asked how long it took him to write a poem he would reply “one cigarette – or two for a long one”
A 🎂🧵
“Toad”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)1/12
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Wanting to go,
all the leaves want to go
though they have achieved
their kingly robes.Weary of colours,
they think of black earth,
they think of
white snow…—Norman MacCaig, “Autumn”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/2022/10/21/poem-of-the-week-autumn-by-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #autumn
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A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) -
He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.And another, and another.
He couldn’t stop…—Norman MacCaig, “Small Boy”
Published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig, Birlinn 2011