Writing a book about it
Christopher Reid
- Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig
Chatto, 390 pp, £9.95, August 1985, ISBN 0 7011 3953 6
The most successful pieces in Norman MacCaig’s Collected Poems tend to be lists of one kind or another. He is best, too, when he has found something to celebrate. A poem such as ‘Praise of a Collie’, which enumerates the virtues of an admired sheep-dog, now dead, works well enough as a primitive catalogue. The fourth of its five three-line stanzas gives something of its flavour:
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