num_pages: 73
description: Winner of the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature; winner of the 2005 Ireland Chair for Poetry Award; the only poetry book long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. "A confident hybrid of voices and styles tender and brilliant." Irish Times . Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To a Fault does "more, in its range and ambition, than any other first collection in at least the last ten years" ( The Independent ).
language: English
title: To a Fault: Poems
titlecomplete: To a Fault: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 114
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dylan Thomas Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company