Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney to friendship

to friendship

The poems seek re-wilding of a city where human loss interconnects with mythic loss

the thrum of the sewing-machine at the end-days of the rag trade

if we can eliminate our own warring needs

Notions is a book full of humour and play

Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney to friendshipA powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics and identity and the absurdities of reality TV, Nick Laird confronts age old anxieties, questions of aloneness, of friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the books heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a fathers dying, the reverberations of which