Nick Laird

Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and critic. His many honors include the Eric Gregory Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fourth collection of poems, Feel Free, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Award. The Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, Laird lives in London and Ireland.

“The Vocation,” a Poem by Nick Laird

From the New Collection “Up Late”

November 21, 2023 By Nick Laird

‘Silk Cut,’ A Poem by Nick Laird

From His Collection Feel Free

July 9, 2019 By Nick Laird

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