Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Irene Koronas’s ‘hurls chalky men / into the underworld // of mother repeats’ and

and playful subversion

to friendship

Notions is a book full of humour and play

Up Late by Nick Laird Matthew Sweeney Adrianne KalfopoulouA powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics and identity and the absurdities of reality TV, Nick Laird confronts age old anxieties, questions of aloneness, of friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the books heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a fathers dying, the reverberations of which