A01=Nick Laird
Author_Nick Laird
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Outsiders
Revenge
Violence
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- ISBN 9780571223824
- Weight: 100g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, he balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Formally deft, rhetorically fresh, these poems never shy from difficult choices, exploring cruelty and vengeance wherever they may be found: in love, in work and against political backdrops. But these are brave, resolute writings that resist despair at all times, affirming instead the need to rebuild and to right oneself, to dust down and carry on.
Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone in 1975. A poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic and former lawyer, his awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Feel Free (2018) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. 'Up Late' - the title poem from his latest collection, Up Late (2023) - won the Forward Prize for Best Poem. He is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast.
