MacCaig se narodil v Edinburghu a po zbytek života dělil svůj čas mezi rodné město a Assynt ve Skotské vysočině. Během druhé světové války se registroval jako odpůrce vojenské služby. V roce 1967 byl jmenován stipendistou tvůrčího psaní na Edinburghu. V roce 1970 se stal čtenářem poezie na University of Stirling.
By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honoured by an OBE and the Queen's Medal for Poetry. This book features 778 poems.
Spend some time with the grand old man of Scottish poetry, Norman McCaig, and revisit the beauty of his poems with this collection to commemorate a life well lived.
The first and only collection based on MacCaig's poetry written in or about his beloved Assynt in Sutherland.