Description:
Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize
"Nick Laird's dazzling poems arrive with a kind of revolutionary candor; a truth-telling that's political, existential, and above all, emotional.... Feel Free is essential poetry."--Terrance Hayes
Brief description: Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic, and the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. His many honors include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The poem "Up Late" was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Laird taught for ten years in New York City and currently lives in London and Ireland.
Review Quotes: Reading Feel Free, I feel myself in the presence of a true master, a poet courageous and capable enough to sing loss and shame, humor and praise as if it is all part of the very same song.--Tracy K. Smith