Feel Free by Nick Laird Jennifer Lee Tsai Cope continues to be the

Cope continues to be the most generous of authors

Thus the first poem 'Reach for the Sky' runs as follows:

but to the shadowed and less commonly charted regions that lie between

‘Green noise’ is the mid-frequency component of white noise – what some have called the background noise of the world – and these poems listen for what is audible

Feel Free by Nick Laird Jennifer Lee Tsai Cope continues to be theNick Laird has been an assured and brilliant voice in contemporary poetry since his acclaimed debut, To a Fault, in 2005. Feel Free, his fourth collection, 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) the poet explores the sundry