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Nick Laird

Nick Laird’s poetry and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently completing his first collection of poetry and is working on a novel.

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Upright and sleepless, having watched three bad movies, I am flying across the ocean to see you. I am a warrior and nothing will stop me, although in the event both ...
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The Unproportioned Ego

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Use of Spies

Nick Laird
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Upright and sleepless, having watched three bad movies, I am flying across the ocean to see you. I am a warrior and nothing will stop me, although in the event both ...

The Unproportioned Ego

Nick Laird
Aug 1 2003
As Lowell points out in his 1961 review of Yvor Winters’s slim Collected Poems, Walter Bagehot begins a review of Lord Macaulay’s History of England with this sentence, “This ...

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