About Niall
Niall Campbell is from the Outer Hebrides. His first poetry collection, Moontide, was published by Bloodaxe Books and won both the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Saltire First Book of the Year. Moontide was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and 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 were published in the U.S. as First Nights, part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His latest collection, The Island in the Sound, was published in September of this year. As a librettist, he has collaborated with both the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is currently the editor of Poetry London. He lives in Fife. Unusually for a North Sea Poet, Niall does not have a dug. He has a cat.