Nick Laird is widely published in the UK's leading journals and magazines, and winner of an Eric Gregory Award in 2004, the poems in To a Fault confirm the arrival of a significant and challenging new voice.
Nick Laird is widely published in the UK's leading journals and magazines, and winner of an Eric Gregory Award in 2004, the poems in To a Fault confir...
A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations. Pivoting around familial relations, this volume concludes with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes as its point of
A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations. Pivoting around familial relations, th...
Nick Laird's poetry travels yet further afield, connecting the shores of his native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast where he spends increasing time. This title features a trans-Atlantic fusion, an inventive melding of Ulster lyricism with proto-Beat rhythms and phrase.
Nick Laird's poetry travels yet further afield, connecting the shores of his native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast where he sp...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2018 Nick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a Fault, in 2005. Feel Free, his fourth collection, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention and wit (here are elegies, monologues, formal poems and free verse) the poet explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint - the family, the impress of history, the body itself - and how we...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2018 Nick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a ...
