Nick Laird Reading his Poems
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- “Quickly and awkwardly, I think is how I shall read.” Enjoy this evocative video in which Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird reads from a selection of his powerful and commended poetry collections.
Laird’s reading includes poems from ‘Go Giants’ (2013), which connects the shores of his native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast. The themes span from sectarian violence to religious faith to marriage, crazy in-laws and pug dogs.
Nicholas “Nick” Laird (b. 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet from County Tyrone. He worked as a lawyer for several years before leaving law to write full-time and is now the author of ‘To a Fault’ (2005), ‘Utterly Monkey’ (2006), ‘On Purpose’ (2007), ‘Glover’s Mistake’ (2009) and ‘Go Giants’ (2013). Laird is the recipient of many prizes, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, the Betty Trask Prize, a Somerset Maugham award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is based between New York - where he is an adjunct professor at Columbia University - and London with his wife novelist Zadie Smith and their two children. For more about Nick Laird see: www.nicklaird.com
Nick Laird read from his poetry collections at the Louisiana Literature festival in 2013.
Camera: Mathias Nyholm Schmidt and Simon Weyhes
Edited by: Kamilla Bruus
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Supported by Nordea-fonden
Love the Pug poems ❤
All My Poems Are Shit!!! Among my favourite poets are Shadwell, Cibber, McGonagall, Austin, Drinkwater, Auden and Bronowski. This guy, Nick, is Very Good! Cheers - Mike
GROW UP! Thanks for the reply anyway! Cheers - Mike.
'The Heartbroken Cobbler'
Carries a thorn in this twisted side and plants himself down again
Perturbs only ever himself whilst both comfortably concentrated aside entirely vilified
A stark, hardening reality brings with it these erstwhile days, albeit rather penniless, uttermost worthless
Yet, his tendered care for the tremendous twist and turn of the blistered shoe has to mean everything to him, and these better senses of his inevitably pour to the sudden surface again - unmatched meticulousness
It is
A complete gaining in the upper-trust echelon
And one shockingly worried customer saunters on in - away on a rather ramble-tongued portrayal and painting a frustrated picture all of his own
The other side of an equally bullish two-sided coin
Aggressively confident they are
And together, they begin to add up to one glistening albeit dilapidated piece of the very same thing, bargaining with their worthy worth to piece it together for one first time
A fleeting, wind-trapped moment inside of a shut-closed, ransacked old door, this hidden feeling wrestles for the other person's light-hearted nature to catch some of that same wind
The reaction will have to mean everything now
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WOW Brianpoetart!
One of my favourite poems -
The Brave
The brave do never shun the light;
Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers;
Freely without disguise they love or hate;
Still are they found in the fair face of day,
And heav'n and men are judges of their actions.
Nicholas Rowe ( 20 June, 1674 - 6 December, 1718 )
English dramatist, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
British Poet Laureate from 1715.
As you might assume, I am not brave.
Nick Laird-Clowes formerly of The Dream Academy.
His wife is Zadie Smith.
oh mi god u can learn