Grian is Frasan

About the Book: 

Discover Grian is Frasan/Sunshine and Showers by Angus Peter Campbell, a collection of 150 poems presented in both Gaelic. Rooted in the lived landscapes of South Uist and Seil, these poems trace a journey through childhood, memory and belonging, where sea light and Atlantic weather shape voice and vision.

Here, nature and nurture move in quiet conversation. Belief and language are tested against tide and wind. Love, in its many forms, unfolds with tenderness and restraint. The cadences of the old Gaelic tradition are present throughout, yet subtly refreshed by the distilled clarity of Japanese and Chinese verse, lending each poem a poised, contemplative strength.

Grian is Frasan is a book of islands, of inheritance and of enduring light after rain.

Reviews: 

An exquisite collection. The prism of memory lets Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul illuminate moments of grace in the Uist and Seil of his youth. In contrast to our cluttered lives, he reveals an aesthetic of frugality and the thisness of things. Quite without dogma, the poems have the delicacy of bog-cotton and the luminousness of water-lilies. MEG BATEMAN

About the Author:

ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL is an award-winning novelist, poet, journalist, broadcaster and actor. He was born and brought up on the islands of South Uist and Seil. He attended Oban High School where his English teacher was Iain Crichton Smith, then graduated with Honours in History and Politics from the University of Edinburgh. His novel, Memory and Straw, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2017, Electricity was shortlisted as the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2023, and his second crime novel, Constabal Murdo 2, won the Gaelic Literature Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2022.