The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Donald Gardner whether their subject is history

whether their subject is history

Wajid Yaseen

illicit liaisons surface in fragments of interconnected lives

and always fresh (fresh is one of the words that might define Nia’s poetry) she comes at them from every angle

The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Donald Gardner whether their subject is historyThe Island in the Sound, the third collection by South Uist 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. The Sound of the title has a double meaning, both a thing that might be heard but also a body of water between islands or mainland, from the Norse word Sund. These poems rise up, then, as moments