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The central achievement of this rare and powerful volume is to show us that even in the heart of prison there is the scope for freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003eSarah Crown, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is certainly Liardet's best book to date. It is what poetry is for: to register life, to turn it back into life through language\"\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Szirtes, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Liardet\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London. He is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University. He has produced four collections of poetry with Seren. His third collection, \u003ci\u003eCompeting with the Piano Tuner\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998, and his fourth, \u003ci\u003eTo the God of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2003. 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