Tim Liardet
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Tim Liardet (born in London) is an English poet and critic. He studied at the University of York and lectures in creative writing at Bath Spa University. He has published five collections of poetry, Clay Hill, Fellini Beach, Competing with the Piano Tuner, To the God of Rain and The Blood Choir, which was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
One of his poems from To the God of Rain:
The Evolution of Olives
Outside Florence's walls in the hissing grass
the olive-pickers snooze, under the olives;
one's hands lie across his chest, like the tomb-sleeper's;
his dusty boot thrown over the other's.
The ground around them, and the unattended fruit,
drink heat. Either the pickers are waiting
for their nets to sprout in the sun or for the olives
to invent a means of ripening slower.
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