Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney The poems seek re-wilding of

The poems seek re-wilding of a city where human loss interconnects with mythic loss

of the world's problems and the twisted inventions we create

Irene Koronas’s ‘hurls chalky men / into the underworld // of mother repeats’ and

Notions is a book full of humour and play

‘The humanity of the poems lies in the “momentary turmoil” that for Robin Thomas characterizes life

Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney The poems seek re-wilding ofA 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