{"product_id":"the-island-in-the-sound-paperback","title":"The Island in the Sound - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiall Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Island in the Sound\u003c\/em\u003e, the third collection by Scottish poet Niall Campbell, creates an archipelago of memories, lyrics, observations and folktales that place the small islands of his birthplace into conversation with moments from literature and history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection, mirroring the islands' precarious future, we uncover strange links to Rome falling, Lindisfarne, and the temporary heaven found in Alamut, North Iran. The waters that churn around the islands in the poems bring strange things to their shores: saints, remnants of various types of havens, crab-boxes, and figures from the working-class lives of Uist. It is a poetry collection attuned to the growing sense that something is changing around us and there never will be a going back. These islands in the sound are what's left: shaped, crafted, riven by the strange tuneful sea they sprang from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiall Campbell's first collection, \u003cem\u003eMoontide \u003c\/em\u003e(2014), won both the  20,000 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Saltire First Book of the Year Award as well as being shortlisted for three other major prizes. \u003ci\u003eFirst Nights: poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a selection from \u003ci\u003eMoontide\u003c\/i\u003e with additional new poems, was published by Princeton University Press in the US in 2016. His second collection, \u003cem\u003eNoctuary\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Born and raised on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, he now lives in Fife. He is editor of the leading UK poetry journal \u003ci\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Highland Book Prize 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNiall Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1984 on the island of South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He now lives in Fife. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and an Arvon-Jerwood Mentorship in 2013, and won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. His work has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including, \u003cem\u003eGranta, The Dark Horse, Poetry London, Poetry Review, The Salt Book of Younger Poets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBest Scottish Poems 2011\u003c\/em\u003e. His debut pamphlet, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Creel Fleet\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Happenstance Press in 2012. His first book-length collection, \u003cem\u003eMoontide\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), won what was then Britain's biggest poetry prize, the £20,000 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, as well as the Saltire First Book of the Year Award; it was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. \u003cem\u003eFirst Nights: poems\u003c\/em\u003e, a selection from \u003cem\u003eMoontide\u003c\/em\u003e with additional new poems, was published by Princeton University Press in the US in 2016. His second book-length collection, \u003cem\u003eNoctuary \u003c\/em\u003e(Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. His third full collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Island in the Sound\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), was longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2024, and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025. It is on the shortlist for Scotland's Poetry Book of the Year 2025 in The Saltires: Scotland's National Book Awards, and He wrote the libretto for \u003cem\u003eDraught\u003c\/em\u003e, an opera by Anna Appleby, which was performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2022. In March 2024 he took over as Editor of \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50400257278189,"sku":"9781780377216","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-island-in-the-sound-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}