Up Late by Nick Laird Groundswell Speaker 2024 to help you refocus and

to help you refocus and come back to yourself

The thunderclap was heard over seventy miles away

apparently out cold

The Velvet Underground represent ground zero

close enough to feel the heat of the lava

Up Late by Nick Laird Groundswell Speaker 2024 to help you refocus andNick Laird's powerful new collection reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems and the banalities and distortions of modern life, the poet confronts age old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, illness and death, the push and pull of daily existence. Laird is a poet capable of heading off in any and every direction, where layers of association transport us from a harbour in County Cork to