Feel Free - Poems - Nick Laird Genre:Poetry spending evenings curled up together

spending evenings curled up together in front of the TV

Alongside his recipes

not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists

and howhe found it hard to grieve for his little mate in the red braces

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Feel Free - Poems - Nick Laird Genre:Poetry spending evenings curled up togetherFeel Free, the fourth collection from acclaimed poet Nick Laird, 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) he explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint the family, the impress of history, the body itself and how we