British actor Sally Day reads the poetry of California poet Nicholas Campbell. The collection includes bonus tracks by three other actors reading Campbell's poetry. All of the readings include background music by various composers. Barcode is removable. Samples available for listening at Youtube.

Nicholas Campbell is of  Scottish and Slovak descent. He was born in Greensburg, Indiana, in 1949, and attended Catholic and public schools in Indiana and California where he later studied verse writing at Los Angeles Valley College with Lawrence Spingarn and at California State University, Northridge, with poets Benjamin Saltman and Ann Stanford, and where, in 1984, he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. In 1988 he attended San Francisco State University where he worked on an M.A. in Creative Writing studying poetry with Stan Rice. Campbell also attended California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo for two years. He has taught creative writing at the California Men's Colony, for Arts Reach at U.C.L.A., and for California Poets in the Schools, and participated in the summer writing workshops at Cuesta College near San Luis Obispo where he taught verse writing.

Testimonials below.

Praise for the poetry of Nicholas Campbell:

This collection is worth a listen, and a pleasure to listen to again and again. If the poems of Robert Frost and Rod McKuen could have children, these darling vignettes of everyday life would be the result. The reading by Sally Day is superb.

Edward Steinhardt

Author of  The Painting Birds (1988) and four other books.

"I have always liked the contemplative quality of Nicholas Campbell's poems, as though there is a freedom and importance in doing nothing. His voice is like the shadows of a ceiling fan striking across the dinner room, all at once important and unimportant.

J-son Wooi-Chin, author of Homing Pigeon, Unipress, the Center for the Arts, National University of Singapore.

I recognize in the work of Nicholas Campbell the tight constructs so remarkable in William Stafford's short poems, and with a bit of Jean Follian, too, in the more abstract poems. It's good to have this work collected together in one place.

Greg Boyd, Asylum Arts Magazine

The poetry of Nicholas Campbell continues a tradition of lyric intensity, of short poems which enter immediately into meaning.

Benjamin Saltman, Author of  "Deck (Ithaca House, 1979), "The Book of Moss" (Garden Street Press, 1992), and "The Sun Takes Us Away" (Red Hen Press, 1995).