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To a Fault
by
Nick Laird
"A confident hybrid of voices and styles tender and brilliant." Irish TimesJourneying 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 t...more
Paperback, 73 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 2005)
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Some pretty good stuff, slightly whimsical and at times lyrical, a great medley of experience. The best poems were the short thematic ones, for me at least. A concrete image that short-circuits itself. One of the great things that WC Williams could do as well, and Laird has the skills for it. But on the other hand, I wasn't exactly moved that much by the poems. I just enjoyed certain bits. But something must be said for it, because I picked it up at a book store and sat down and basically read t...more
Lovely first collection.
This guy made me think that people would start talking about poetry at dinner parties again.
Quite beautiful
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