Aonghas MacNeacail is a Skyeman  who now lives in the Scottish Borders. He writes poetry and songs in both Gaelic and English. He is a seasoned performer of his own work, who believes poetry should be accessible and its presentation can be fun!

Poetry has taken him as far East as Japan, and West to Seattle and Vancouver, to Rovaniemi on the Finnish Arctic Circle and down to the Dead Sea. He’s read on the Capitol in Rome, in the UN building in New York, and he’s met the King of Tory Island. Berlin, Brussels, Warsaw and St Petersburg vie with Tula, Tobermory and Tarland for a place in his list of most memorable venues.

Aonghas won the Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year with his third collection, Oideachadh Ceart ('A Proper Schooling and other poems'), in 1997. His most recent collection Laoidh an Donais òig ('Hymn to a young demon') was published by Polygon in 2007

‘His verse is built on love and nature, indeed if we had a word that meant both love and nature, that word would describe his verse. He is a passionately committed writer of robust and sensuous verse that owes something to the past for its imagery while being  uncompromisingly modern in form.’
Ronald Black in the History of Scottish Literature

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