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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.
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Milk and Honey 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Dog Poems 
The Estuary 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Insistence 
The Tamarit Poems 
Gallop 
Rumi's Little Book Of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Being Alive 
This Is Yarrow 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Spiritlands 
Book of Mercy 
Jinx 
Ten Poems by Walter de la Mare 
Net Needle 
Ten Poems from Ireland 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The Handle of the Door 
Over the Moon