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  1. 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

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #grief #GriefAwarenessDay

  2. 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

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #grief #GriefAwarenessDay

  3. 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

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #grief #GriefAwarenessDay

  4. 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

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #grief #GriefAwarenessDay

  5. 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

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #grief #GriefAwarenessDay

  6. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  7. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  8. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  9. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  10. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  11. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  12. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  13. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  14. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  15. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  16. 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.

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/marco-fazzi

    #Scottish #literature #translation #Italian #NormanMacCaig #poetry #poetryintranslation

  17. Book launch:

    the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
    A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig

    7 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

  18. Book launch:

    the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
    A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig

    7 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

  19. Book launch:

    the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
    A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig

    7 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

  20. Book launch:

    the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
    A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig

    7 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

  21. Book launch:

    the many days / uno dei tanti giorni
    A revised and extended bilingual edition of poems by Norman MacCaig

    7 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

  22. “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

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  23. “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

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  24. “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

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  25. “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

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  26. “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

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  27. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring

  28. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring

  29. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring

  30. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring

  31. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #20thcentury #Spring

  32. 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 Underground

    poemsontheunderground.org/wp-c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood

  33. 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 Underground

    poemsontheunderground.org/wp-c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood

  34. 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 Underground

    poemsontheunderground.org/wp-c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood

  35. 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 Underground

    poemsontheunderground.org/wp-c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood

  36. 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 Underground

    poemsontheunderground.org/wp-c

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig #February #motherhood

  37. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/between-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  38. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/between-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  39. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/between-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  40. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/between-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  41. 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)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/between-

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climbing #hillwalking #Suilven #Sutherland #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig

  42. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly

  43. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly

  44. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly

  45. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly

  46. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #fishing #NormanMacCaig #BillyConnolly

  47. 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, 2006

    Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan

    poetryarchive.org/poem/normans

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig

  48. 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, 2006

    Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan

    poetryarchive.org/poem/normans

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig

  49. 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, 2006

    Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan

    poetryarchive.org/poem/normans

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig

  50. 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, 2006

    Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan

    poetryarchive.org/poem/normans

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig

  51. 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, 2006

    Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) died #OTD, 23 Jan

    poetryarchive.org/poem/normans

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #NormanMacCaig