This revised and expanded edition of Norman MacCaig's collected poems includes all the work he wishes to preserve from fourteeen individual volumes, as well as over a hundred uncollected peices- nearly seven hundred poems in all, spanning his career from the early 1950s to the present. All are marked by the wit and the wisdom, the clarity of language and observation, and the masterly lightness of touch that have earned him his reputation as a great poet. 'A book full of delight , love, decency, wit and wisdom. Above all, it is a book of life. It deserves to be called a classic. 'Douglas Dunn