Nick Laird

Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone in 1975. He has published three novels, Utterly Monkey, Glover's Mistake and Modern Gods, and five collections of poetry, To a Fault, On Purpose, Go Giants, Feel Free and Up Late. With Don Paterson, he edited Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now.

Laird is the recipient of many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Forward Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Guggenheim Fellow, he is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.

Twitter: @NickLaird
Website: nicklaird.com

Books in order of publication:

Utterly Monkey (2005).

To a Fault (2005).

On Purpose (2007).

Glover’s Mistake (2009).

Go Giants (2012).

Penguin Modern Poets 4: Nick Laird (2017).

Modern Gods (2017).

Feel Free (2018).