The many days selected poems of Norman MacCaig - MacCaig, Norman 1910-1996 (Polygon, 2010)
Contents: Cover – Title page – Copyright page – Contents – Introduction – Ineducable Me – Ineducable me – Climbing Suilven – Sleeping compartment – Lord of Creation – Private – Go away, Ariel – Patriot – Small lochs – London to Edinburgh – Portobello waterfront – Journeys – On a beach – Bright day, dark centre – On the pier at Kinlochbervie – Emblems: after her illness – Sargasso Sea – By the Three Lochans – Hugh MacDiarmid – After his death – Grand-daughter visiting – To be a leaf – Between mountain and sea – One of the Many Days – One of the many days – Feeding ducks – Goat – Byre – Fetching cows – Blind horse – Frogs – Basking shark – Wild oats – Sparrow – Blackbird in a sunset bush – Ringed plover by a water's edge – Dipper – Toad – Blue tit on a string of peanuts – My last word on frogs – Our neighbour's cat – Gin trap – Likenesses – Likenesses – Instrument and agent – Summer farm – Linguist – Leaving the Museum of Modern Art – Painting - 'The Blue Jar' – Helpless collector – No choice – Recipe – Also – No end to them – Landscape and I – Among Scholars – Among scholars – Midnight, Lochinver – Crofter's kitchen, evening – By Achmelvich bridge – Neglected graveyard, Luskentyre – Moment musical in Assynt – Two shepherds – Aunt Julia – Uncle Roderick – The Red Well, Harris – Country dance – Return to Scalpay – Praise of a road – Praise of a collie – Praise of a boat – Praise of a thorn bush – Fishermen's pub – Off Coigeach Point – Old Highland woman – Two men at once – Old Maps and New – Old maps and new – High Street, Edinburgh – Celtic cross – Crossing the Border – Two thieves – A man in Assynt – Old Edinburgh – Battlefield near Inverness – Rewards and furies – Queen of Scots – At the Loch of the Pass of the Swans – Characteristics – From My Window. From my window – November night, Edinburgh – Edinburgh courtyard in Jul