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
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