The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Ian McDonald rooted in the landscape of

rooted in the landscape of Mayo

Inheritance is a stunning debut brimming with tenderness

Celebrating its successful 25 years in print

now known as a publisher and writer of fiction and non-fiction

and even though 'it is totally absurd to expect answers that might help explain our world'

The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Ian McDonald rooted in the landscape ofThe 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