Up Late by Nick Laird Translation so broad-leafed in its pleasures

so broad-leafed in its pleasures

A distinct poetic voice

heart-breaking story of Hazel

we hear the thoughts of those involved who are trying to understand and justify their roles

continues his essential investigation into language

Up Late by Nick Laird Translation so broad-leafed in its pleasuresA powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics and identity and the absurdities of reality TV, Nick Laird confronts age old anxieties, questions of aloneness, of friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the books heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a fathers dying, the reverberations of which