Poems confront politics, identity, grief, and daily existence, centering on a father's death during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Poems confront politics, identity, grief, and daily existence, centering on a father's death during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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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. At the book's heart lies the Forward Prize-winni...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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No violent or gory scenes present
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language used
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present
Religious content
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No religious themes present
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Meditations on politics, identity, justice, and societal collapse
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Central exploration of illness, loss, grief, and pandemic suffering
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