Feel Free by Nick Laird Luljeta Lleshanaku (“Plant Upbringing” was originally included

(“Plant Upbringing” was originally included in the volume Wall Painting

Selima Hill

so that each image is stark and true’

as Sutherland lays bare for the reader his experiences and perspectives – at once particular and universal

By the time of publication he had also been living in Germany for over fifteen years

Feel Free by Nick Laird Luljeta Lleshanaku (“Plant Upbringing” was originally includedNick 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