Niall Campbell Launch Readings
Scottish poet Niall Campbell is publishing his third collection The Island in the Sound with Bloodaxe in September 2024. His debut Moontide won both the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and the inaugural £20,000 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Niall's second collection Noctuary was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019, as was fellow Bloodaxe poet Vidyan Ravinthiran's second collection The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here. Born and raised on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Niall now lives in Fife.
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Niall Campbell's poem 'The Night Watch' from Noctuary was chosen as one of 20 'Best Poems of 2019' featured on the Scottish Poetry Library's website. The poem, along with audio of Niall reading the poem and comments from both him and editor Roseanne Watts can be found here.
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FORTHCOMING READINGS
Saturday 12 October, 12pm
Bloodaxe Poetry Showcase event at Berwick Literary Festival
Berwick Baptist Church, 8 Golden Square, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1BG
Niall Campbell will read from The Island in the Sound at this special Bloodaxe showcase event at Berwick Literary Festival. He will be joined by Australian poet Sarah Holland-Batt, whose selected poems The Jaguar is also published in September, and Northumberland poet Katrina Porteous, whose new collection Rhizodont was published in June 2024.
Tickets £9, on sale from 12 August. More information here.
Summit: A Poetry School Festival
Inaugural edition of Summit, a two-day festival of ecopoetry, nature and climate writing in West Yorkshire
Sunday 20 October 2024, Leeds City Centre
PANEL 1: BLUE POETICS
WORKSHOP THEATRE, 1.30–2.30pm
Free with Sunday festival pass
Exploring the hydrosphere – through oceans, lakes, and fog, island ecosystems, and field notes written with glaciologists – these readings study the connection between water and words, bodies in mercurial transformative states. With readings from Niall Campbell, Helen Mort, and Alycia Pirmohamed. Chaired by Jeremy Davies, Associate Professor of English, University of Leeds.
Full details below (then scroll down to Panel 1):
https://poetryschool.com/summit-a-poetry-school-festival/
Friday 8 November
Reading at St Mungo's Mirrorball
Centre for Contempory Art, Glasgow
Niall will read from his new collection at the monthly Mirrorball poetry event in Glasgow.
More details to be announced soon here.
PAST READINGS
Tuesday 24 September 2024, 7pm BST
Online launch reading by Nia Broomhall, Niall Campbell, Sarah Holland-Batt and Laura Wittner, with translator Juana Adcock
Niall Campbell joined the authors of our other September titles to celebrate the publication of their books with readings and discussion. This free Bloodaxe launch event was streamed on YouTube Live and is now availabe on this YouTube page: https://youtube.com/live/GIeiEhAvavQ
NIALL CAMPBELL A GUEST ON MAKAR TO MAKAR
Makar to Makar, livestreamed Thursday 9 July 2020, 7pm
Niall Campbell was Scotland’s National Poet Jackie Kay's guest on Makar to Makar on 9 July, alongside fellow Scottish poet William Letford. The event was streamed live at on 9 July, and is now available on YouTube - see below. With music from singer Claire Brown.
Niall Campbell’s page on Makar to Makar is here. He writes about his favourite bookshop and library, and there are links to the audio recordings Niall posted on his website.
Niall read ‘The Night Watch’, ‘First Illness’ and ‘Good Night’ from Noctuary, and ‘The Work’, ‘Rodin Sculpts ‘The Kiss’’, ’’The Letter Always Arrives at its Destination’’ and ‘Leave Poetry’ from Moontide. He also read a new poem ‘Exiting the Library’. Jackie Kay said ‘There is something timeless in the quality of the work’ after he had finished reading. Niall’s set started at 35.49
Makar To Makar | Episode 9 | Jackie Kay with Niall Campbell, William Letford and Claire Brown
Fellow Bloodaxe poet Imtiaz Dharker was a guest on Makar to Makar on 4 June 2020. Links to all the episodes, with full credits to all the poems read – including Jackie Kay’s poems published by Bloodaxe - are here.
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NIALL CAMPBELL READS FROM HOME
Niall Campbell read for the 2015 John Hewitt International Summer School, alongside Colette Bryce.
Video recordings of Niall Campbell reading two poems from Noctuary from his home have been posted on the John Hewett Society's website here.
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Listen to Niall Campbell narrate a poem he wrote especially for the Radio 4 feature Ballad of the Fix, about Scotland's drug problem, here. This was a BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Week.
Noctuary reviews & poem features at: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=945
[28 April 2020]
