Tim Liardet is a poet twice nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize,[1] a critic, and Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.

The Storm House, his eighth collection, a book-length elegy for his brother who died young and in mysterious circumstances, appeared from Carcanet Press in June 2011.

His The World Before Snow, a study of a life-changing love affair between An American and an English poet who met during a record-breaking snowstorm in Boston, appeared from Carcanet Press in 2015 and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize of the same year.

Liardet has sat on various panels and delivered papers on contemporary poetry at the AWP Conference in New York City in 2008, in Chicago in 2009, in Washington, D.C. in 2011 and in Boston in 2013.

He has also performed his own work widely: he has read at the Royal Festival Hall, on BBC Radio Three and BBC Radio Four, at the Ars Interpres Festival, Stockholm, in 2007, as visiting poet at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin in 2008, and has read extensively in America, including such venues as Cambridge Public Library in Boston, the Lannan Centre for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the KGB Bar and Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City.