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The Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, __Moontide__, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, the largest such prize in the United Kingdom, was named the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection. __First Nights__—which includes all the poems in __Moontide__ and sixteen new ones—marks the North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry. __First Nights__ offers vivid descriptions of the natural world, and the joy found in moments of quiet, alongside intimate depictions of new parenthood. Campbell grew up on the remote, sparsely populated islands of South Uist and Eriskay in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and __First Nights__ is filled with images of the islands’ seascapes, myths, wildlife, and long, dark winters. But the poems widen beyond their immediate locations to include thoughts on sculpture and mythology, Zola and Dostoevsky, and life in English cities and French villages. In the poems on early fatherhood, the geography shifts from coastal stretches to bare, dimly lit rooms. Stripped back, honest, and immediate, these poems capture moments of vulnerability, when the onl

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Author

Campbell, Niall

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400883370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Poetry, Literary Fiction