Colin Mackay (26 July 1951 – 28 July 2003) was a poet and novelist. His final work was an autobiography entitled Jacob's Ladder which included talking about his planned suicide. Books The Sound of the Sea (1990) The Song of the Forest: A Fable of Magical Scotland (1986) Cold Night Lullaby (1998) House of Lies (1998) Fires in the Night Howling at the Moon References External links Author biography Colin Mackay: Literary witness to the catastrophes of war https://web.archive.org/web/20050502231654/http://www.sundayherald.com/39773 (broken) 1951 births 2003 suicides 20th-century British poets