Elected: 2026
Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, for The World Before Snow (Carcanet) and The Blood Choir (Seren), 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’s Award, several Society of Authors Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship, four Pushcart nominations, and various other awards. Arcimboldo’s Bulldog: New and Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2018. He has recently received an Authors’ Foundation work-in-progress award from the Society of Authors for his twelfth collection Atlas, Tick, Hog and Gold.
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