Tim Liardet has produced seven collections of poetry. His third collection, Competing with the Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and his fourth— To the God of Rain— a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2003.The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council England Writer’s Award as a collection-in-progress, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for best collection of that year. His chapbook—Priest Skear—appeared last year and was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2010; The Storm House, his seventh collection, was published by Carcanet in June 2011. He is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.
