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Up Late
By Nick Laird
Laird’s fifth collection glimmers with angsty maturity as it manoeuvres between introspection and elegy. We meet God-as-Martian-poet contemplating his creation in Theodicy. If there are elements of Martian poetry, there is also a critique of this approach, suggesting the endless search for the magical in the everyday is tinged