Fourth Estate

Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and until recently worked as a lawyer in London. His poems, essays and reviews have been published in various anthologies and journals, including the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. Laird’s two poetry collections, To a Fault and On Purpose, are published by Faber and Faber, and his first novel, Utterly Monkey, was published by Fourth Estate in 2005.