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Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh on the 14th November in 1910.
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MacCaig's formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School and then Edinburgh University where he studied Classics. He then trained to be a teacher at Moray House in Edinburgh and spent a large part of his life as a primary school teacher.
During the war MacCaig refused to fight because he did not want to kill people who he felt were just the same as him.
He therefore spent time in various prisons and doing landwork because of his pacifist views.
Having spent years educating young children, MacCaig then went on to teach university students when in 1967 he became the first Fellow in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University, and he later held a similar post while teaching at the University of Stirling.
Norman MacCaig's poetry began as part of the New Apocalypse Movement, a surrealist mode of writing which he later disowned turning instead to more pre