{"product_id":"9780571327508","title":"Go Giants by Nick Laird","description":"To  a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish  Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In Go Giants,  his third and most ambitious volume, Nick Laird's poetry travels yet  further afield, connecting the shores of his native Northern Ireland  with those of the American east coast where he spends increasing time.  The result is an almost trans-Atlantic fusion, an inventive melding of  Ulster lyricism with proto-Beat rhythms and phrase. The author's gaze appears  longer and more penetrative than before, casting back across the ocean  to find a fresh perspective on older questions while vividly capturing  the vibrancy of the new. Nick Laird writes with wit and candour,  with polemic and persuasion, with no subject seemingly too large or too  small: weapons of mass destruction, sectarian violence, religious faith,  Jonah and the Whale, marriage, fatherhood, a daughter. A profoundly  versatile collection, equally capable of public crescendo and a more  personal hum, Go Giants is a daring and a thrilling endeavour by a writer described by Colm Toibin as 'an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry'.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292692001141,"sku":"9780571327508","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571327508.jpg?v=1762750939","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571327508","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}