Norman MacCaig (1910-1996)

MacCaig was born, lived and died in Edinburgh. But he loved the north-west.

My favourite poem of his -

Ardmore.

The track that stops there is a final one.
So absolute its ending that it seems
What other tracks are lesser copies of
- Paradigm of them all. The sea, the sun
Are the next stage, with nothing in between.
A quick place this to know your journey’s done.