作品情報

父の死をめぐる連作を中心に、喪失と日常の揺らぎを見つめる。

『Up Late』は、現代の不安定さのなかで、詩がどう感情と思想を同時に運べるかを示す。荒々しさとやわらかさが交互に現れ、個人的な哀悼を社会的な感受性へとひらいていく。

書籍情報

出版社

Faber & Faber

発売日

2023-06-01

ページ数

96ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.4 x 1.3 x 21 cm

ISBN-13

9780571378678

ISBN-10

0571378676

価格

3441 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction

Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a father's dying, the reverberations of which echo throughout in poems that interrogate inheritance and legacy, illness and justice, accounts of what is lost and what, if anything, can be retrieved. Laird is a poet capable of heading off in any and every direction, where layers of association transport us from a clifftop in County Cork to the library steps in New York's Washington Square, from a face-off between Freud and Michelangelo's Moses to one between the poet and a squirrel in a Kilburn garden. There is conflation and conflagration, rage and fire, neither of which are seen as necessarily destructive. But there is great tenderness, too, a fondness for what grows between the cracks, especially those glimpses into the unadulterated world of childhood, before the knowledge or accumulation of loss, where everything is still at stake and infinite, 'the darkness under the cattle grid'.

Nick Laird was born in County Tyrone in 1975. A poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic and former lawyer, his awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. Feel Free (2018) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. 'Up Late' - the title poem from his latest collection, Up Late (2023) - won the Forward Prize for Best Poem. He is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast.

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