The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman McCaig

By Norman MacCaig

By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honoured by an OBE and the Queen's Medal for Poetry. This book is a celebration of MacCaig's life - 2010 is the hundredth anniversary of his birth - and it features 100 of his best poems, edited by his son Ewen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9780857907806

Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh in 1910. His formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh University and then trained to be a teacher at Moray House. Having spent years educating young children he later taught Creative Writing, first at Edinburgh University, then at the University of Stirling. He died in 1996.

Reviews for The Many Days

[rosielee_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A very welcome c.d of MacCaig reading his poems comes with this book, and it's a real treat to hear him, relishing his own jokes and generally adding that essential Scottish accent that comes hard to some of us. There isn't anything MacCaig can't do - here are great love poems, poems which show his unerring observational skill particularly when focussed on the Scottish countryside, and scathing poems on bureaucratic idiocies. Only problem is, there are a lot of poems here, including some early ones he might well have preferred omitted, and it's therefore a doorstopper of a book. So you need some of the individual earlier volumes too for ease of reading.