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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.
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt 
Poems & Fragments 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Everywhere Bear: Book and CD Pack 
Extended Similes 
Gold from the Stone 
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland 
Counting Backwards