Between Mountain and Sea : Poems From Assynt

Author(s): MacCaig, Norman, Watson, Roderick, McCaig, Ewen,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/07/2018,
Pagination: 208 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd,
Published By: Birlinn General,
Book Classification: Literature & literary studies,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781846974496

'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.