Norman MacCaig

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk…

And if they haven’t got poetry in them, there’s nothing you can do that will…

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now…

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so…

All those authors there, most of whom of course I’ve never met. That’s the poetry…

I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own…

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and…

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry…

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t…

I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry…