Poem of the Week: Moment Musical in Assynt by Norman MacCaig
31 May '21
Henry Morton described Skye’s Cuillin ridge as ‘Wagner’s ride of the Valkyries frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen...
Norman MacCaig
The Light Comes Back: ‘The white bird’ by Norman MacCaig
16 Feb '21
‘Every year, in the third week of February,’ Kathleen Jamie writes in her collection Sightlines, ‘there is a day, or, more usually...
Poem of the Week: Norman MacCaig, Praise of a thorn bush
18 Jan '21
An Edinburgh school teacher by profession, poet Norman MacCaig spent his summers in Assynt in the far north west of Scotland. From their first visit...
