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 Saltire First Book of the Year, as well as being shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. Noctuary, his second collection, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2019. A selection from these first two books was published in the US as First Nights, part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His third full collection, The Island in the Sound (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. Niall has worked as a librettist for both the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is also the editor of Poetry London. He lives in Fife.

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