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Tag Archives: Norman MacCaig
Three notes: 2, Secondariness
(This second note, happily, is on the idea of secondariness – again an idea mentioned in passing in relation to MacCaig. As mentioned by Richard Watt back on good ol’ Facebook, this certainly owes something to Deleuze and Guattari’s idea … Continue reading
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Tagged Deleuze and Guattari, Gaelic, Norman MacCaig, Poetry, Richard Watt, Scots language
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Three notes: 1, on metaphor
(I have three notes I’d like to post as a way of clearing decks before the year gets any further. Each of them requires further elaboration which in turn requires me being able or willing to get into my office, … Continue reading
A note on MacCaig
(This brief note arose from a Facebook chat with Alan Buckley, in which I suppose I was outlining something of what I think of as Secondariness – how certain writers, indeed certain literatures, are perceived as outside the frame of … Continue reading
Interview with the Gumpire
(This is the text of an email interview a student conducted with me this April for a project – I didn’t know them and, while they gave permission for their questions to be reproduced here, they preferred not to give … Continue reading
The Nay I Know Not Seamless Garment Garment
An eminently sensible question from a former student, ‘Do you have different blogs for a reason? Maybe you should just choose one and stick to it?’ has made me go over this old niggle from a new angle. Whether we’re … Continue reading
The Academy of Errors?
News of the death of the very playful, very questioning ‘scul?tor’ George Wylie has made me think again about this wry, almost Socratic strain in the Scottish mind, as evidenced by figures as diverse as Wylie himself, Ivor Cutler, Chic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chic Murray, George Wylie, Ivor Cutler, MIB, Montaigne, Norman MacCaig, R.D. Laing, Toy Story, Vincent D'Onofrio
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A Turbulent Makar
(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Motion, Augustus, Ben Jonson, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles II, Creative Scotland, Doctor Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Muir, Frank McAveety, George Mackay Brown, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Jack McConnell, James Hogg, John Dryden, Liz Lochhead, Michael Morpurgo, Norman MacCaig, Restoration, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Fergusson, Roddy Lumsden, Scottish Executive, Scottish Opera, Sorley MacLean, T.S.Eliot, Virgil, W.S. Graham, Walter Scott
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