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.