Poem of the Week: Norman MacCaig, ‘Notations of ten summer minutes’
31 Aug '21
Norman MacCaig’s poetry about Assynt, collected in Polygon’s Between Mountain and Sea, are spare, simple evocations of time and place....
Norman MacCaig
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...
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...
