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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 might transcend them.
Feel Free is always daring, always renewing, and Laird’s most remarkable work to date.
Strong in the Rain 
Selected Poetry 
Gold from the Stone 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Being Alive 
Ten Little Princesses 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
The Tamarit Poems 
Signs Like This 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
This Is Yarrow 
She Inserts the Key 
Soemps 
Wild Persistence 
Spiritlands 
The Dead Birth, Itself: The Introductory Volume to the Child of Light 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Gift of the Old One