{"id":934,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/nick-laird\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:23:08","slug":"nick-laird","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/nick-laird\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Laird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Faber) include <em>To a Fault, <\/em>which won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; <em>On Purpose<\/em>, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Somerset Maugham Prize; <em>Go Giants; <\/em><em>Feel Free,<\/em> which was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize; and <em>Up Late<\/em> (2023) whose title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.\u00a0His has published three novels,\u00a0<em>Utterly Monkey<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Glover\u2019s Mistake<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0Modern Gods<\/em>. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he co-edited the poetry anthology\u00a0<em>The Zoo of the New<\/em> with Don Paterson, and is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen&#8217;s University, Belfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Faber) include To a Fault, which won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Somerset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":935,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-934","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}