Review: Moontide by Niall Campbell on The Literateur

It’s become a moment to savour when the debut collection of an Eric Gregory Award-winner hits the shelves. The Society of Authors have an uncanny habit of getting it right with young poets – Sam Riviere, Emily Berry, Ahren Warner and Helen Mort are just a few recent winners to be lavished with justifiable praise and attention – and 2011-recipient Niall Campbell seems next in line. After a widely admired debut pamphlet from HappenStance, After the Creel Fleet (2012) and winning the Poetry London Competition, Moontide is a collection punctuated by tides, ice and fading light, and presents us with poems of impressive confidence in their relative quiet....

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