Quoting Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]>:
All apart from MacCaig, that is -- he read
> from the page as usual. I like to think of it as pulling rank.
At La Trobe Univ in Melbourne I had a philosopher colleague some of whose
schooling was in Edinburgh. He vowed Mr MacCaig was a powerful man with the taws
(to what part of the schoolboy body I forget), 1950s I expect.
> I spent the evening with Tom Scott once, who had spend an afternoon with
> Eliot. That was in the course of preparing the former's collected shorter
> poems. I gather Tom and MacCaig had fallen out about something or other. Tom
> was reputed to have had a marvellous reading voice, but he'd been through
> cancer therapy and I didn't hear him read.
>
> P
Tom Scott, author of The Ship and Ither Poems, if I recall...
Hamish Henderson was notable thenabouts also I think.
M
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