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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.
This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the
definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son,
Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems
after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion here. The aim
of the selection process was to sustain the overall quality of the
1990 Collected Poems, which was compiled by the poet. Unusually,
MacCaig's creativity did not decline with age, and most of the
unpublished poems date from his seventies and early eighties,
adding significantly to his published work from that period.
Insight to the writer's life and work is provided in an
appreciative introduction by author and critic Alan Taylor,
focusing on MacCaig's life and times, and in a collection of
MacCaig's words on his own and others' writing.
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