The Irish Literary Times

The great Irish poet WB Yeats was born 150 years ago this June. Nick Laird analyses his unique reading style and describes the challenges of performing verse.

Contemporary Irish poetry is doing well, as the breadth of work up for the Irish Times Poetry Now award demonstrates

  Nick Laird was born in Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland and educated at Cookstown High School and Cambridge University. Currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York, his honours

The award-winning Northern Irish writer on life in New York, poetry as “a way of being alone without feeling alone," and why “all writing is political.”