Up Late by Nick Laird Translation heart-breaking story of Hazel

heart-breaking story of Hazel

continues his essential investigation into language

author of The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia‘Caroline Clark makes it so I can smell it

memory and what it is to have loved and lived

Up Late by Nick Laird Translation heart-breaking story of HazelA 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