Synopses & Reviews
"A confident hybrid of voices and styles'tender and brilliant."'"Irish Times
Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To a Faultdoes "more, in its range and ambition, than any other first collection'in at least the last ten years" (The Independent).
Synopsis
"A confident hybrid of voices and styles...tender and brilliant."-- Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, does "more, in its range and ambition, than any other first collection...in at least the last ten years" ().
Synopsis
Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To a Fault does "more, in its range and ambition, than any other first collection in at least the last ten years" (The Independent). "
Synopsis
Winner of the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature; winner of the 2005 Ireland Chair for Poetry Award; the only poetry book long-listed for the First Book Award.
About the Author
Nick Laird is the author of the novel Utterly Monkey. His debut poetry collection, To a Fault, was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Born in Northern Ireland, Laird lives in New York and London.