Between Mountain and Sea : Poems From Assynt

Author: MacCaig, Norman, Watson, Roderick, McCaig, Ewen

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Published on 5 July 2018 by Birlinn General (Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited).

Paperback | 112 pages
197 x 131 x 16 | 234g

'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is here that he would spend many a summer on family holidays, walking the hills and fishing the lochs. MacCaig's fresh eye saw remarkable newness even in the everyday and each poem is a tiny revelation, a new look at an old friend. This collection celebrates, renews, and rediscovers Norman MacCaig's Assynt.