World Before Snow
During a record-breaking blizzard in Boston, two poets met, one American and one English. This meeting marked the beginning of a life-transforming love affair. The story is told in "The World Before Snow", Tim Liardet's tenth collection, a book of passionate extremes, in which he discovers new dimensions in language and form. The poems document some of the ways in which a particular species of love can allow for the rediscovery of identity, as all the fragments of persona previously put forth to the world are stripped away to expose a raw new self.
About the author
Tim Liardet has published seven full collections of poetry. His third collection "Competing with the Piano Tuner" was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998 and his fourth – "To the God of Rain" – a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2003. He has reviewed poetry for such journals as the "Guardian", "Poetry Review" and "PN Review" and has been Poet-in-Residence at the "Guardian". "The Blood Chair", his fifth collection, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize. He is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.