On Purpose

Informationen zum Autor Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone in 1975. A poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic and former lawyer, his awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Feel Free (2018) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize and the Derek Walcott award. 'Up Late' the title poem from his latest collection Up Late (2023) won the Forward Prize for Best Poem. He is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. Klappentext A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, "The Art of War". With On Purpose , prize-winning poet Nick Laird returns with a second stunning collection. Zusammenfassung A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, "The Art of War".

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nick Laird, Laird Nick
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.08.2007
• EAN: 9780571237388
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23738-8
• Seiten: 76
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 200 mm x 7 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; POETRY / General, Families; Identity; Men & Women