Niall Campbell
Niall Campbell is a poet from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. His first poetry collection, Moontide, was published by Bloodaxe Books and won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Noctuary, his second collection, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry for best collection. He lives in Fife.
Reading List
The Flesh Tree
Most Scottish of beliefs: a brown-green bark shielding a bole made of pure flesh; the circlets of its bone rings rippling through length and ledger of the trunk. Even describing it sets the mind’s fire and brings the griddle to the heat; shame me all you want, levering it down, I’d scatter the snow’s […]