The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Ian McDonald Dean Rhetoric’s Foundry Songs examines

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The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell Ian McDonald Dean Rhetoric’s Foundry Songs examinesThe 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