Noctuary
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Niall Campbell
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, was published by Bloodaxe in 2019. He lives in Leeds.
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Noctuary - Niall Campbell
Midnight
My heart had been repeating oh heart, poor heart
all evening. And all because I’d held my child,
oh heart, and found that age was in my cup now;
poor heart, it bare knew anything
but the life of a young axeman in the forest,
whistler, tree-feller, swinging with the wind,
where oh heart, poor heart isn’t the heard song,
where there is no cry in the night, no cradling,
no heart grown heavy, heavier, with opening.
First Nights
Young father, is that you at the night drum,
playing soft, as though the birds were easy woken?
It’s me. I didn’t think there was a listener.
Then why, young father, do you play?
It snows
beyond the window, the whole house sleeps – and, love,
I’m carrying something that is a change.
What do you make, young father, of the lateness,
are you a little drunken with the dark?
Yes, my head swims; I lean this head against
the solid wall, and hum to these new cares.
So, go on, tell what you hope for, young father.
Not sleep – not day, not company – just let
snow fall, light burn, glass shatter, let things slide,
let the new change be unlike the old change.
Thinning Apples
Gone untrimmed, when the yield came