Up Late by Nick Laird André Mangeot formal and demotic by turns

formal and demotic by turns

and hallucinations

continues his adventurous synesthetic dance with language

Here is poetry that challenges our assumptions

Up Late by Nick Laird André Mangeot formal and demotic by turnsA 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