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Summary
Celebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been ‘an assured and brilliant voice’ (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. This is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense the deep American influence from living in New York meeting his familial shores of Northern Ireland: the acoustically generous, longer lines of the new world’s Ginsberg or Whitman, and the lyricism of his forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. These are smart, energetic, worldly poems of political edge and family tenderness.
More books by Nick Laird
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Poetry’ by Nick Laird, from his 2005 debut collection.
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Vespers at Pacifico’s’ by Nick Laird, featured in his powerful 2024 collection, Up Late.