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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 
Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum 
Selected Poetry 
Floss 
Beneath the Beauty 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The 'White City' 
Steep Tea 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Spiritlands 
Gold from the Stone 
Basho: The Complete Haiku 
Poems of Childhood 
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head 
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Final Poems and Prose 
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
States of Happiness 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
River Lane 
The Tamarit Poems 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Being Alive 
Book of Mercy 
On Connection