Born in County Tyrone in 1975, Nick Laird studied English at the University of Cambridge. He is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and former lawyer. His poetry collections (all published by Faber & Faber) include To a Fault, which won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Somerset Maugham Prize; Go Giants; Feel Free, which was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize; and Up Late (2023) whose title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His has published three novels, Utterly Monkey, Glover’s Mistake and Modern Gods. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he co-edited the poetry anthology The Zoo of the New with Don Paterson, and is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast.
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