Nick Laird Książki

In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. They have looked for those poems which see most clearly, which speak most vividly, and which have meant the most to them as readers and writers. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness- words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and place in which they were written, however distant and however foreign they may be, feel utterly here and now in the twenty-first century. This book stretches as far back as Sappho and as far forward as the recent award-winning work of Denise Riley, taking in poets as varied as Thomas Wyatt, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara and Gwendolyn Brooks along the way. Teeming with old favourites and surprising discoveries, this lovingly selected compendium is sure to win lifelong readers.

A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2018 Nick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a Fault, in 2005. Feel Free, his fourth collection, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention and wit (here are elegies, monologues, formal poems and free verse) the poet explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint - the family, the impress of history, the body itself - and how we might transcend them. Feel Free is always daring, always renewing, and Laird's most remarkable work to date.

Ujmująca opowieść o tym, że warto być sobą, a to, że się różnimy, czyni świat piękniejszym. Świnka morska w stroju do judo? To dopiero dowcip! Zwierzaki mieszkające w domu Kit, małej dziewczynki, nieufnie patrzą na nową lokatorkę. Nigdy nie spotkały kogoś takiego. Maud nie potrafi latać ani wysoko skakać, i jeszcze ten strój Istne dziwo! A ona tak bardzo chciałaby się z nimi bawić Nie jest łatwo się różnić, ale przy odrobinie odwagi i życzliwości Maud odkryje, że bycie sobą to najlepsze, co mogło jej się zdarzyć. Bo życie jest za krótkie, żeby być jak wszyscy! Pierwsza książka dla dzieci Zadie Smith, bestsellerowej brytyjskiej pisarki, i Nicka Lairda, docenianego poety i pisarza, a prywatnie męża autorki.

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N The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and place in which they were written, however distant and however foreign they may be, feel utterly here and now in the 21st Century. This book stretches as far back as Sappho and as far forward as the recent award-winning work of Denise Riley, taking in poets as varied as Thomas Wyatt, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara and Gwendolyn Brooks along the way. Here, the mournful rubs shoulders with the celebratory; the skulduggerous and the foolish with the highfalutin; and tales of love, loss and war with a menagerie of animals and objects, from bee boxes to rubber boots, a suit of armour and a microscope

Als een dertiger, in de ban van een kunstenares een relatie met haar wil beginnen, worden de kunstenares en zijn huisgenoot verliefd op elkaar.