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Tim Liardet | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) London |
| Genre | Poetry |
Tim Liardet is a poet twice nominated for theT. S. Eliot Prize,[1] acritic, and Professor of Poetry atBath Spa University.
He was born in London in 1949, and has produced eleven collections of poetry to date.
Clay Hill, his first collection, appeared in 1988.Fellini Beach, his second collection, appeared in 1994. His third collection,Competing with the Piano Tuner, was aPoetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for theWhitbread Poetry Prize in 1998; his fourth,To the God of Rain, a Poetry Book Society recommendation for Spring 2003. Liardet was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2002. He has reviewed poetry for such journals asThe Guardian,Poetry Review, andP. N. Review and was poet-in-residence atThe Guardian in 2006.The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won anArts Council England Writer's Award as a collection-in-progress in 2003, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for summer 2006, and was shortlisted for the 2006T. S. Eliot Prize for the best collection of poetry for that year. "Priest Skear", a pamphlet that turns thedrowning of the 23 Chinese cocklepickers inMorecambe Bay in 2004 into a politicalallegory, appeared in 2010 and was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2010.The Storm House, his eighth collection, a book-lengthelegy for his brother who died young and in mysterious circumstances, appeared fromCarcanet Press in June 2011.Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing, a pamphlet, appeared in 2013. HisThe World Before Snow, a study of a life-changing love affair between An American and an English poet who met during a record-breaking snowstorm in Boston, appeared from Carcanet Press in 2015 and was shortlisted for theT. S. Eliot Prize of the same year.Arcimboldo's Bulldog: New and Selected Poems appeared from the same publisher in 2018.
Liardet has sat on various panels and delivered papers on contemporary poetry at the AWP Conference in New York City in 2008, in Chicago in 2009, in Washington, D.C. in 2011 and in Boston in 2013. He has also performed his own work widely: he has read at theRoyal Festival Hall, onBBC Radio Three andBBC Radio Four, at theArs Interpres Festival, Stockholm, in 2007, as visiting poet at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin in 2008, and has read extensively in America, including such venues asCambridge Public Library in Boston, the Lannan Centre for Poetics and Social Practice atGeorgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the KGB Bar andCornelia Street Cafe in New York City.
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