Between Mountain and Sea - Poems From Assynt

The first and only collection based on MacCaig's poetry written in or about his beloved Assynt in Sutherland.

About the author

Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh in 1910. His formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh University and then trained to be a teacher at Moray House. Having spent years educating young children he later taught Creative Writing, first at Edinburgh University, then at the University of Stirling. He died in 1996.
Roderick Watson was born in Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. A recently retired professor at Stirling University, he has lectured and published widely on modern Scottish literature and currently co-edits the Journal of Stevenson Studies. His main poetry collections are True History on the Walls (1977) and Into the Blue Wavelengths (2004).

Summary

The first and only collection based on MacCaig's poetry written in or about his beloved Assynt in Sutherland.

Product details

• Authors: Norman MacCaig, MacCaig Norman
• Assisted by: Roderick Watson (Editor), Watson Roderick (Editor), McCaig Ewen (Foreword)
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781846974496
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-449-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets