Up Late: Poems

by Nick Laird

Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. These poems transport us from a clifftop in Ireland's County Cork to a bench in New York's Washington Square, from a face-off between Freud and Michelangelo's Moses to one between the poet and a squirrel in a London garden.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324110422
• ISBN13: 9781324110422
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages