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Norman MacCaig
1910 - 1996
Norman McCaig
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Primary

Far cry (1943)

The Inward Eye (1946)

Riding Lights (1955)

The Sinai Sort (1957)

ed., Honour'd Shade (1959)

A Common Grace (1960)

A Round of Applause (1962)

Measures (1965)

Surroundings (1966)

A Man in my Position (1969)

ed. with Alexander Scott: Contemporary Scottish Verse1959-1969 (1970)

Selected Poems (1971)

Penguin Modern Poets 21 (1972)

The White Bird (1973)

The World's Room (1974)

Tree of Strings (1977)

Old Maps and New: Selected Poems (1978)

The Equal Skies (1980)

A World of Difference (1983)

Collected Poems (1985)

The Honey of Memory (1987)

Collected Poems (1988)

Voice-Over (1988)

CoIlected Poems (1990)

Recent Editions

Collected Poems Chatto & Windus London 1993

Old Maps and New: Selected Poems Hogarth Press London 1978

Selected Poems of Norman Maccaig edited by Douglas Dunn Chatto and Windus London 1997

Secondary

Norman MacCaig : a study of his life and work / Marjory McNeill.
Edinburgh : Mercat Press, c1996.

Norman MacCaig : critical essays / edited by Joy Hendry and Raymond Ross.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1990

Penguin Modern Poets. 21, Iain Crichton Smith, Norman MacCaig, George Mackay Brown Penguin, 1972.

Scottish writers talking : George Mackay Brown, Jessie Kesson, Norman MacCaig, William McIlvanney, David Toulmin / interviewed by Isobel Murray and Bob Tait ; edited by Isobel Murray. East Linton :Tuckwell Press, 1996.

"Unemphatic marvels": A study of Norman MacCaig's poetry (Gothenburg studies in English) Erik Frykman Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis 1977

Other media

NORMAN MacCAIG: A MAN IN MY POSITION d. Michael Alexander 1977 ref 2802

Available from Scottish Screen Archive, 11 Beaumont Gdns, Glasgow, G12 9JN

A Sense of Place
Walter Scott
George Douglas Brown
Hugh MacDiarmid
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sorley Maclean
Norman MacCaig
Iain Crichton Smith
Edwin Muir
George MacKay Brown
Alasdair Gray
Liz Lochhead
James Kelman
Tom Leonard
Irvine Welsh