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Click here to watch Alan Riach’s talk on the poetry of Norman MacCaig plus other videos from the 2013 ASLS Schools Conference.

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Norman MacCaig’s poetry is clear and lucid and filled with the shifting light of Edinburgh and Assynt. MacCaig stands in the first rank of twentieth-century poets: Seamus Heaney said of him, “He means poetry to me”.

Roderick Watson’s Scotnote will enhance any student’s enjoyment of MacCaig’s poetry, as well as providing a deeper understanding of the poet’s craft.

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CONTENTS

• The Poet: ‘Making something that was never in the world before’
• The Poems: ‘Remarkable Cargoes’
• Poetry: ‘You, Decorator and Disturber’
• Notes
• Appendix I: Practical Criticism
• Appendix II: Poems Discussed
• Select Bibliography