From the Word Go [Paperback]

'Subtle, funny and tremendously moving. He has an eye for the small detail as well as the big picture. These poems brilliantly evoke time and place' - Jackie Kay 'Nick Drake shows a talent for capturing the suffering and loneliness of people, and the instantaneousness of events...His Czech roots and friendships with AIDS victims add particularity and worldliness to his elegies and love poems' - Sarah Wardle, Poetry Review 'Culturally eclectic and socially engaged, The Man in the White Suit is exciting stuff...a highly effective wit with a serious agenda' - Peter Lawson, Times Literary Supplement

A collection of poetry exploring the different meanings and implications which are tightly packed into that small word, `go', including a sequence dedicated to the loss of the author's father.

Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999. His first novel, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, was published by Bantam in 2006. His most recent projects include a stage adaptation of Philippe Petit's To Reach the Clouds and a screenplay for the film Romulus, My Father.