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The poems in Nick Laird's fifth volume, Up Late, reflect on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, the poet confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the Forward Prize-winning title sequence, a moving and profound meditation on a father's dying,...

A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in.

A funny and energetic engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to.

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To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In Go Giants, his third and most ambitious volume, 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...

Alison vive ancora nella piccola cittadina dell'Irlanda del Nord dov'è nata, lavora nell'agenzia immobiliare del padre e spera che il suo secondo matrimonio rappresenti finalmente la svolta che sta cercando da anni. Sua sorella Liz, che ha preso le distanze dalla famiglia e vive a New York, torna a casa per le nozze di Alison prima di proseguire il suo viaggio alla volta di un'isola al largo della Papua Nuova Guinea: lì, nelle sue vesti di ant...

Northern Ireland meets New York in this brave and energetic new collection of poems from Nick Laird - now in paperback.

Feel Free, the fourth collection from acclaimed poet Nick Laird, effortlessly marries the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice, and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention, and wit, Laird explores the patterns of freedom and constraint-the family, the impress of history, the body itself-and how we might transcend them. Always daring, always renewing, Feel Free is Laird's mos...

A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times) "[Nick Laird's] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles eye and ear." -The New York Times Book Review"Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language…[with] fierce tenderne...

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A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authors

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Tales of the supernatural from the American Civil War.

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An energetic, fiercely funny, ultimately redemptive debut novel set in London and Northern Ireland chronicles the lives of two reunited friends who discover that one of them has accidentally stolen money from a band of paramilitary terrorists.

Go Giants, Nick Laird's stunning third volume of poetry, is full of "epic ambition." In a collection that's "easily his most accomplished to date...[Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-provoking as his considered response to an infinitely complicated universe needs it to be" (The Guardian). Laird boldly engages with topics ranging from fatherhood and marriage to mass destruction and the cosmos. Go Giants is ...

A confident hybrid of voices and styles...tender and brilliant."-Irish Times Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To a Fault does "more, in its range and ambition, than any other first collection...in at least the last ten years" (The Independent).

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