Norman MacCaig
Scottish poet whose witty, exact verse about the Highlands of Assynt and Edinburgh is among the finest in twentieth-century Scottish literature. He wrote without pretension or obscurity.
Works
- Far CryEarly poems exploring Scottish landscape with vivid metaphor
- The Sinai SortCollection examining religious doubt and theological questions
- MeasuresPoems using precise measurement as metaphor for human understanding
- A Man in My PositionPersonal meditations on aging, position, and mortality
- Voice-OverLater work reflecting on voice, retrospection, and life changes