Noctuary

Niall Campbell was born in 1984 on the island of South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and an Arvon-Jerwood Mentorship in 2013, and won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. His work has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including, Granta, The Dark Horse, Poetry London, Poetry Review, The Salt Book of Younger Poets and Best Scottish Poems 2011. His debut pamphlet, After the Creel Fleet, was published by Happenstance Press in 2012. His first book-length collection, Moontide (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), won Britain’s biggest poetry prize, the £20,000 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, as well as the Saltire First Book of the Year Award; it was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. First Nights: poems, a selection from Moontide with additional new poems, was published by Princeton University Press in the US in 2016. His second book-length collection, Noctuary (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He lives in Leeds.

• 13 Midnight14 First Nights15 Thinning Apples16 First Illness17 Keeping the Poacher’s Light19 Crusoe, One Year on the Island20 Clapping Game21 All the Doubts of the Late Evening22 Moth23 Lyrics25 Packhorse26 The Address28 Poacher29 A New Father Thinks About Those Running Home30 Dear,31 The Night Watch32 The Disembarked33 Go There34 The Water Carrier35 Returning to Work36 Measuring Heat Loss in the Arctic37 Dream38 Blackberries39 Poetry When Working40 An Island Vigil41 The Cut42 Four Memories in No Particular Order43 Horseshoe Crab44 Proof45 Living in the City and Dreaming of the Winter Beach46 Two Poems after Cuevas Lopes46 Picking Day47 Leaving Town48 Other Branches49 February Morning50 Glasgow51 Cooling a Meal by the Outside Door52 Capture53 Tightrope54 Thirties55 Language56 From the Spanish58 Good Night61 Acknowledgements63 Biographical note

Full of striking moments, the poems of Moontide are illuminated by powerful lyric impulses.