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Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell

Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny Season 6 Episode 1

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Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbringing into a meditative, sometimes joyful poetry that weaves history, literature, folklore with the lives of ordinary people.

Plus your podcast stocking is positively bulging with other goodies. Robin and Peter share a poem from Mat Riches, a dip into yellow noon-day a new collection by Kay Syrad from Cinnamon Press, the poem Argonauts, by George Seferis plus a spirited rendition of A Visit from St. Nicholas, by  Clement Clarke Moore. Allegedly...

Happy holidays everyone!    

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