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

whether their subject is history

(‘For when you fall in it you will always find the biggest pile

Wajid Yaseen

whose suicide haunted my education on the campus where he died

with poems that alternate between steamy

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