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The Storm HouseTim Liardet![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (Pub. Jun 2011) 9781847770677 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jun 2011) 9781847778413 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Jun 2011) 9781847778420 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Untalkative brother, a year dead, everywhere world
is in the ascendant. Out here the air is heavy with rain, the crowded lobby like a railway station. Out here, estranged from world, I feel the urgency to explain exactly what it was that happened to you and to dig for the whole story... from ‘The Storm House’
In 2006 Tim Liardet’s brother died in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family psychodrama. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and anger, the events recollected in the first part extended by the virtuoso sonnet-sequence of the second. From uncertainty, trauma and silence, Liardet generates force and gravity in ‘the spring and leap / of energy’ that is the creative life owed to the dead.
Cover painting: Undercut. Copyright © Katarzyna Gajewska. Reproduced by permission of the artist
Like Slant Rain
Calling Ugolino The Water-halt The Constables Call Grief-fugue The Gorse Fires Versions of a Miserabilist The Jigging Season The Law of Primogeniture On Pett Level Beach Goose Flesh Jalousie The Ghost Train The Revenant Fantasia on the Snarl The Beating ‘I thought it was a fucking earthquake,’ The Interlude Bucko in Love Exit, Pursued by a Wolf The Waterlily Garden Self-portrait as Flypaper Self-portrait with Patio Flames Sky Egg Deleted Scene (The Frog) The Brothers Grimm Ur-blue A Portrait of my Grandfather in Drag The Peacemaking The Vintage Deleted Scene (The Jug) The Dark Age ‘…Lay Thee Down’ The Storm House
Awards won by Tim Liardet
Short-listed, 2015 TS Eliot Prize (The World Before Snow)
'Tim Liardet makes the human macabre dazzle in the dark.'
Gwyneth Lewis Praise for Tim Liardet 'Tim Liardet's poetry is a concentration of intelligence, fierce but accurate feeling and an encompassing imagination ... Arcimboldo's Bulldog is the work of an exemplary poet at the top of his craft.' George Szirtes
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