Arcimboldo's Bulldog ― New and Selected Poems

Arcimboldo’s famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter’s face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform the medium of expression itself. Tim Liardet’s Arcimboldo’s Bulldog: New and Selected Poems, which draws on his ten award-winning collections and adds new elements – fresh produce – reconfigures his life’s work to date and draws it into a new, eloquent whole.

Tim Liardet has produced ten collections of poetry to date. The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council England Writer’s Award as a collection-in-progress in 2003, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the 2006 TS Eliot Prize. He has reviewed poetry for such journals as The Guardian, Poetry Review and PN Review and was Poet-in Residence at The Guardian.