Competing with the Piano Tuner

Tim Liardet's ability to be surprised and enlightened by experience, his relentless curiosity, and his formal skills, create poems of marvellous dramatic pace and intensity. His extended and refined lines cover subjects as diverse as sex, taxi drivers, and icebergs. A number of the poems are concerned with love, desire, and emotion -- often in very physical forms -- through a wide-ranging, constantly changing, use of detail and example. Liardet's previous collection, Clay Hill (1988) and Fellini Beach (1994), are also available from Dufour.