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Celebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been 'an assured and brilliant voice' (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. This is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense the deep American influence from living in New York meeting his familial shores of Northern Ireland: the acoustically generous, longer lines of the new world's Ginsberg or Whitman, and the lyricism of his forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. These are smart, energetic, worldly poems of political edge and family tenderness.
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      man insists he has a right to know his assailant’s age

      and height, the colour of his eyes, what debt or threat

      or great disaster should bring him to this pass, whether
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        the older man is struck in the chest by an arrow and falls.

        The friend tells him he must pull the arrow out and clean

        the wound.

        The man replies he cannot let the arrow be removed

        until he gets to know it better, until he grasps its proper

        nature as a clawed or razor arrow.
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