and howhe found it hard to grieve for his little mate in the red braces
to the local families who live and work there today
And the sorrows and the triumphs
the everyday items of the past reveal fascinating insights into an often-forgotten way of life
Feel Free - Poems - Nick Laird Genre:Poetry and howhe found it hardFeel Free, the fourth collection from acclaimed poet Nick Laird, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice, and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention, and wit (here are elegies, monologues, formal poems, and free verse) he explores the sundry patterns of freedom and constraint the family, the impress of history, the body itself and how we