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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.
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Days of Grace 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
States of Happiness 
The Sea Migrations 
Steep Tea 
This Is Yarrow 
Battlefields and Girls: Poems 
Dog Poems 
Being Alive 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
#MeToo: Rallying against sexual assault and harassment - a women's poetry anthology 
Luck Is the Hook 
Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Old Possum's Cats) 
A Poem for Every Night of the Year 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
101 Poems About Childhood 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
The Moon Before Morning