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  1. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    “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

    #books #scottishhighlands #highlands #normanmaccaig #nanshepherd #memoir
  2. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    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

    #normanmaccaig #20thcentury #sutherland #suilven #hillwalking #climbing
  3. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    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

    #billyconnolly #normanmaccaig #fishing #poetry #poem #literature
  4. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    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=ilGV9OCHei

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly #DouglasDunn #AlasdairGray #SeamusHeaney #JackieKay #TomLeonard #LizLochhead #AonghasMacNeacail

    #aonghasmacneacail #lizlochhead #tomleonard #jackiekay #seamusheaney #alasdairgray
  5. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

    Aly Bain, Andrew Greig, & Billy Connolly venture to the Loch of the Green Corrie – with readings of Norman MacCaig’s work by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, & Aonghas MacNeacail

    10/10

    youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly

    #billyconnolly #andrewgreig #alybain #fishing #normanmaccaig #20thcentury