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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize
“Nick Laird’s dazzling poems arrive with a kind of revolutionary candor; a truth-telling that’s political, existential, and above all, emotional.…
Feel Free is essential poetry.”—Terrance Hayes
Trade Review"Reading
Feel Free, I feel myself in the presence of a true master, a poet courageous and capable enough to sing loss and shame, humor and praise as if it is all part of the very same song." -- Tracy K. Smith
"[
Feel Free] shows this exceptionally gifted poet extending what is by now a real range." -- Paul Muldoon - Times Literary Supplement
"Nick Laird's acute eye and shades of meaning make these poems a gift to read." -- Guardian
"The highlights of the book are love poems and city poems for the Information Age: the poet's situations and relationships—as a father, a son, a husband—are sized up and filtered through different kinds of brilliantly manipulated language…
Feel Free [is] Laird's best book yet." -- Irish Times
