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    The Storm House
    The Storm House
    The Storm House
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    The Storm House

    By Tim Liardet

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    A book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family psychodrama, this poetry compilation explores the poet's feelings of loss associated with his brother's mysterious death. A narrative exploration of masculinity and brotherhood, it recalls the events of the past and invokes sorrow and anger. From uncertainty, trauma, and silence comes a creative work filled with the power and gravity owed to the dead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJul 1, 2011
    ISBN9781847778413
    The Storm House
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    Tim Liardet

    Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, Tim Liardet is the recipient of many literary awards and Arcimboldo’s Bulldog: New and Selected Poems is his eleventh book of poems. Liardet was born in London, educated at the University of York, and worked variously and travelled widely before moving into higher education. He has reviewed contemporary poetry for an extensive number of journals and newspapers, including the Guardian, Poetry Review and PN Review, and his poetry has been translated into Farsi, Macedonian and German. He has judged many competitions, not least for the Poetry Society, run workshops for the Guardian, taught a wide diversity of specialist courses for the Arvon Foundation, for various festivals and institutions in the United States and, from 2016 to 2018, was a Poetry Book Society selector. He has performed his work on BBC Radio Three and BBC Radio Four and at many major festivals and venues, including the Ars Interpres Festival, Stockholm, the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, the Royal Festival Hall, Cambridge Public Library in Boston, the KGB bar and other locations in New York, plus a range of different venues in New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania. He is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.

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      The Storm House - Tim Liardet

      TIM LIARDET

      The Storm House

      for my brother

      David Liardet

      Acknowledgements

      Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following journals and newspapers in which some of these poems first appeared, or will appear: Agenda, Alhambra Poetry, Ambit, Ars Interpres (Stockholm), The Cincinnati Review (US), The Forward Book of Poetry 2008, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin Programmjournal 2008, The Manhattan Review (US), The New Republic (US), New Welsh Review, New Writing 10, PN Review, Poetry International (US), Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Salt Magazine, Slate Magazine (US), The Spectator, Stand Magazine, Sou’wester (US), The Times Literary Supplement, The Warwick Review.

      ‘Goose Flesh’ was published both as poem and sound recording as part of the Slate Poetry Podcast in Slate Magazine, ed. Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, November 2009. ‘The Law of Primogeniture’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (US), November 2008; four sections of ‘The Storm House’ were nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2009. ‘Fantasia on the Snarl’ was publicly broadcast for the first time on BBC Radio Three’s The Verb, February 2008. The poem was commissioned by Bath Literature Festival, February-March 2008, and first appeared in the pamphlet resulting from the Festival. The particular notion of a disembodied snarl, at large in this poem, owes much to William Golding. Sections 3, 4, 13 and 19 of ‘The Storm House’ first appeared in The Manhattan Review, Volume 14, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2009–10. Sections 2, 6, 9, 18, 20 and 25 of the same poem first appeared in Poetry Review, Volume 99:4, Winter 2009. Sections 14, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29 and 32 of the same poem appeared in Agenda, Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2010. Sections 5, 10, 12, 17, 22, 28 and 31 of the same poem first appeared in Stand Magazine 195, April 2011. ‘Calling Ugolino’, ‘Sky Egg’, ‘The Beating’, ‘The Constables Call’, ‘The Gorse Fires’, ‘The Interlude’ and ‘The Water-halt’ were published on the Poetry Society’s Poetry International website, guest-edited by Kathryn Gray, August 2008. ‘The Water-halt’, ‘The Constables Call’, ‘Fantasia on the Snarl’, ‘The Waterlily Garden’ and ‘Exit, Pursued by a Wolf’ were translated into German for the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, September 2008.

      Special thanks go to Molly Peacock for her very particular advocacy. I am grateful that this book has had the excellent good fortune to benefit hugely from the ears and eyes of Gerard Woodward, Richard Kerridge, Michael Schmidt, Peter Porter, and especially Fiona Sampson. The book is also for Miranda Liardet, without whose endurance and dynamic support it would never have been written.

      Contents

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      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

      About the Author

      Also by Tim Liardet

      Copyright

      My original scepticism concerning the possibility of speech reading had one good result: it led me to devise an apparatus that might help the deaf children…a machine to hear for them, a machine that should render visible to the eyes of the deaf the vibrations of the air that affect our ears as sound. It did not enable the deaf to see speech as others hear it, but it gave ears

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