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On Purpose

Nick Laird author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:16th Aug '07

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On Purpose cover

With On Purpose, prize-winning poet Nick Laird returns with a second stunning collection.

A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, "The Art of War".

Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first collection I can think of in at least the last ten years.' On Purpose confirms the promise of that first book and shows the author hitting new and yet more athletic strides.

Blending tones of assurance and delicacy, of confidence and vulnerability, On Purpose is a collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, The Art of War.

"'Nick Laird's To a Fault watches the weight and measure of every word with a mixture of irony and tender loving care' Observer"

  • Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2008

ISBN: 9780571237388

Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 7mm

Weight: 115g

80 pages

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