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'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.



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'[Reveals] the poet’s relationship with Assynt, a relationship that lasted forty years and informed his imagination as no other place did. An excellent introduction to the formal trajectory of MacCaig’s work'

* Times Literary Supplement *

'I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig's work. It is an on-going education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry'

-- Seamus Heaney

'I have read or re-read every poem [in the Collected Poems], and I think it one of the greatest literary experiences of my life'

-- Sorley MacLean

'Whenever I meet his poems, I’m always struck by their undated freshness; everything about them is alive, as new and essential, as ever'

-- Ted Hughes

Between Mountain and Sea: Poems From Assynt

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    A Paperback / softback by Norman MacCaig, Roderick Watson, Ewen McCaig

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      Publisher Birlinn General
      Published 5 July 2018
      ISBN-13 9781846974496
      978-1846974496
      ISBN-10 1846974496
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      '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.



      Trade Review

      '[Reveals] the poet’s relationship with Assynt, a relationship that lasted forty years and informed his imagination as no other place did. An excellent introduction to the formal trajectory of MacCaig’s work'

      * Times Literary Supplement *

      'I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig's work. It is an on-going education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry'

      -- Seamus Heaney

      'I have read or re-read every poem [in the Collected Poems], and I think it one of the greatest literary experiences of my life'

      -- Sorley MacLean

      'Whenever I meet his poems, I’m always struck by their undated freshness; everything about them is alive, as new and essential, as ever'

      -- Ted Hughes

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