The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell games From football to turtles

From football to turtles

occasionally soaked in blood

Each recipe is simple to make and packed full of flavour

dinner and late-night eating

Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely liveable occupation

The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell games From football to turtlesThe 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