Niall Campbell

Niall Campbell (born 1984), is a Scottish poet. He has published three poetry collections and a poetry pamphlet. He was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award for poets under 30 in 2011. In 2014 he won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for poets under 30 and the Saltire First Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and Scotland's National Book Awards Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.

Biography Campbell was born in 1984 in South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. In 2009 he completed the MLitt in creative writing at the University of St. Andrews. He lived in Leeds for some time and currently lives in Fife. He was the recipient of a Jerwood/Arvon mentorship in 2013. and the Saltire First Book of the Year award. and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

A selection of Campbell's poetry, First Nights, was published in the United States in 2017, as part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The collection includes the poems in Moontide, along with sixteen new poems.

The new poems would go on to be included in his second full collection, Noctuary, published in 2019 by Bloodaxe Books. This collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2019.

Campbell's third full collection, The Island in the Sound, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024. It was shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Awards Scottish Poetry Book of the Year in 2025.

Campbell has also worked as a librettist for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He is the poetry editor of the journal, Poetry London.

Selected publications After the Creel Fleet, HappenStance Press, 2011 (pamphlet) First Nights: Poems, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, Princeton University Press, 2017 (selected and new poems) Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize (2014) Shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection of poetry (2014) Shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize for the best first collection of poetry (2014) Shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for best collection (2019) Shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Awards Scottish Poetry Book of the Year (2025)