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“When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.”

Norman MacCaig · Poetry

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Norman MacCaig

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

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

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

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