How Long to Read Up Late: Poems

How Long Does it Take to Read Up Late: Poems?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Up Late: Poems by Nick Laird

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Acclaimed poet Nick Laird reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in with singular precision, clarity, and daring. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. These poems transport us from a clifftop in Ireland’s County Cork to a bench in New York’s Washington Square, from a face-off between Freud and Michelangelo’s Moses to one between the poet and a squirrel in a London garden. At the book’s heart lies the Forward Prize–winning title sequence, a profound meditation on a father’s dying at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The reverberations of this knockout poem echo through the volume in its interrogations of inheritance and legacy, illness and justice, accounts of what is lost and what, if anything, can be retained. Amid rage, grief, and the conflagration of reality, Laird finds tenderness in the moments of connection that grow between the cracks and offers glimpses into the unadulterated world of childhood, where everything is still at stake and infinite. Astonishing in its emotional range and intellect, Up Late is a powerful volume from an “exceptionally gifted poet” (Paul Muldoon, Times Literary Supplement).

How long is Up Late: Poems?

Up Late: Poems by Nick Laird is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Up Late: Poems Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Up Late: Poems aloud.

What Reading Level is Up Late: Poems?

Up Late: Poems is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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