Fugitives

The poems in Fugitives fall into three categories: new poems, previously uncollected poems, and translations. Most of them have appeared at one time or another in magazines and newspapers.

"He writes a robust and finely tuned poetry, a poetry that is empathetic to the casual people that our confused society throws up"
Robert Garioch,
Lines Review

"Campbell's resourceful craftsmanship and his ear for the authentic allow him to range confi dently over a wide variety of forms and subjects."
James Aitchison
Scotland on Sunday

"I find many of Campbell's poems very pure,
with a piercing sense of the 'lacrimae rerum' of which Vergil wrote. It is unusual nowadays to find such purity of tone."
Iain Crichton Smith
The Scotsman