Maoilios Caimbeul | Poet | Scottish Poetry Library

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Maoilios Caimbeul / Myles Campbell is a Gaelic poet and children’s writer based on the Isle of Skye. He was born in Staffin, Skye in 1944. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1976 and teacher training, he taught in Mull, Skye and latterly Gairloch. From 1984 to 1987 he was Gaelic Development Officer with the Highlands & Islands Development Board. He has also written eight novels for children and a novel for adults. After retiring from schoolteaching in 2004, he taught part-time at the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI.

As part of the team, he was scriptwriter for the books of Series 2, 3 and 4 of the popular Gaelic TV course for learners Speaking Our Language. He was crowned Bard at the National Mod in 2002 and has been Honorary Bard of Comunn Gàidhlig Inbhirnis (Gaelic Society of Inverness) since 2012. He is an Honorary Fellow of the ASLS.

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Selected Bibliography

Eileanan (Celtic Department, Glasgow University, 1980)
Bailtean (Gairm, 1987)
A’ Càradh an Rathaid (Coiscéim, 1988)
A’ Gabhail Ris (Gairm, 1994)
Saoghal Ùr (diehard, 2002)
Breac-a’-Mhuiltein/Spéir Dhroim an Ronnaigh – selected poems 1974-2006 (Coiscéim, 2007)
Dà Thaobh a’ Bhealaich – verse dialogue with Mark Goodwin (Two Raven’s Press, 2009)
Island Conversion (Islands Book Trust, 2011)
Tro Chloich na Sùla (Clàr, 2014)
An Dà Anam/In Two Minds – verse dialogue with Diarmuid Johnson (Clò Dhùnain, 2016)
An Triùir agus Lùbag (Acair, 2016)
Gràs/Grace (Handsel Press, 2019)

Selected Biography & Criticism

Meg Bateman, ‘Review of Bailtean’Chapman. No. 54 (Autumn 1988)
Ronald Black, ‘Review of Saoghal Ùr’, Scotsman (2003)
Iain Crichton Smith, ‘Review of Bailtean’, Gairm. No. 140 (Autumn 1987)
Rody Gorman, ‘Review of A’ Gabhail Ris’, Chapman. No. 88 (1997)
John MacInnes, ‘Review of Eileanan’, Gairm. No. 115 (Summer 1981)
Aonghas MacNeacail, ‘Review of Saoghal Ùr’, Cothrom (2004)
Catriona Montgomery, ‘Review of Bailtean’, Cencrastus. No. 28 (Winter 1987/88)
Proinsias O’Drisceoil, ‘Review of Breac-a’-Mhuiltein’, Poetry Ireland Review (2008)
Niall O’ Gallagher, ‘Review of The Two sides of the Pass / Dà Thaobh a’ Bhealaich’, Northwords Now, 2009.