Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for The World Before Snow (Carcanet) in 2015 and The Blood Choir (Seren) in 2006, Tim Liardet has produced eleven collections of poetry to date. He has also been longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, received several Poetry Book Society Recommendations, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, an Arts Council England Writer Award, a Society of Authors Award, a Hawthornden fellowship, four Pushcart nominations, and various other awards.
His poems have appeared or are due to appear in The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Slate Magazine, North American Review, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and many other journals. Arcimboldo’s Bulldog: New and Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2018. From 2015-2018, he was a Poetry Book Society Selector; in September 2019, he received an Authors Foundation work-in-progress award from the Society of Authors. Born in London, in 1959, Liardet is currently Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University. Author photo © Tomasz Milosz Radej
