Editing Tim Liardet (section)

==Biography==
''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 a [[Poetry Book Society]] Special Commendation and longlisted for the [[Costa Book Awards|Whitbread 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 as ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[Poetry Review]],'' and ''[[P. N. Review]]'' and was poet-in-residence at ''The Guardian'' in 2006. ''The Blood Choir'', his fifth collection, won an [[Arts 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 2006 [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] for the best collection of poetry for that year. "Priest Skear", a pamphlet that turns the [[Morecambe Bay cockling disaster|drowning of the 23 Chinese cocklepickers]] in [[Morecambe Bay]] in 2004 into a political [[allegory]], appeared in 2010 and was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2010. ''The Storm House'', his eighth collection, a book-length [[elegy]] for his brother who died young and in mysterious circumstances, appeared from [[Carcanet Press]] in June 2011. ''Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing'', a pamphlet, appeared in 2013. His ''The 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 the [[T. 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 the [[Royal Festival Hall]], on [[BBC Radio Three]] and [[BBC Radio Four]], at the [[Ars Interpres]] Festival, Stockholm, in 2007, as visiting poet at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin in 2008, and has read extensively in America, including such venues as [[Cambridge Public Library]] in Boston, the Lannan Centre for Poetics and Social Practice at [[Georgetown University]] in Washington, D.C. and the KGB Bar and [[Cornelia Street Cafe]] in New York City.