Norman's Cronies |
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Norman MacCaig reads poems in Scots written by his friends, and reads his own appreciation of Robert Garioch |
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1 CD £11.00 |
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1 Bizerta
2 At My Father’s Grave
3 Cokkils
4 She Fills the Hairt
5 Frae the Riggins o Chelsea or
Hame Thochts frae Abraid
("It wasnae a bad nicht we had . . .")
6 Credo
7 In Time of Deepest Wanhope
8 The Years of the Crocodile
9 An Appreciation of Robert Garioch
10 I’m Neutral
11 The Percipient Swan
12 The Canny Hen
13 Cooling-aff
14 Lesson
15 Echo in Scots
16 Prolegomena*
17 Peeries and Buckies
18 Eros
19 Quiet Passage
20 Ghaisties
21 The Smoky Smirr o Rain
22 My Een are nae on Calvary
THE CRONIES:
(A) Hugh MacDiarmid SSCD 149
(B) Sydney Goodsir Smith
(C) Robert Garioch
(D) George Campbell Hay
(E) Douglas Young
(A) 1 Bizerta [02.04]
2 At My Father’s Grave [00.36]
(B) 3 Cokkils [00.50]
4 She Fills the Hairt [00.55]
5 Frae the Riggins o Chelsea or
Hame Thochts frae Abraid
("It wasnae a bad nicht we had . . .") [04.30]
6 Credo [01.50]
7 In Time of Deepest Wanhope [02.26]
8 The Years of the Crocodile [01.14]
(C) 9 An Appreciation of Robert Garioch [02.06]
10 I’m Neutral [00.58]
11 The Percipient Swan [02.19]
12 The Canny Hen [08.38]
13 Cooling-aff [01.38]
14 Lesson [06.44]
15 Echo in Scots [00.43]
16 Prolegomena* [05.48]
17 Peeries and Buckies [00.37]
18 Eros [00.46]
19 Quiet Passage [01.05]
20 Ghaisties [01.23]
(D) 21 The Smoky Smirr o Rain [01.10]
(E) 22 My Een are nae on Calvary [00.25]
*Original recording incomplete; last three stanzas read by George Philp
Cover photograph of Norman MacCaig at home, copyright of George Philp
All recordings previously available in Scotsoun archive as under:
1 sscd 080 Twa Leids / Dà Chànan
2 sscd 079 Langholm Memorial Sculpture
3–8 sscd 141-142 Sydney Goodsir Smith (Makars Series)
9 sscd 061 In Mind o a Makar (In Memory of Robert Garioch)
10–14 sscd 045 Robert Garioch (Makars Series)
15 sscd 080 Twa Leids / Dà Chànan
16–20 sscd 072 Poems in Scots and Gaelic
21 sscd 080 Twa Leids / Dà Chànan
22 sscd 080 Twa Leids / Dà Chànan