Tim Beech is a poet unusually attuned to nature's aural rhythms. His reverence and respect for poetic tradition, expressed in his elegant elegy for Geoffrey Hill and development of the nature mythology of Ted Hughes.
Weighty and solid on the tongue, his poetry has a peculiarly earthy quality. Distinctly Romantic yet rooted the poems take on the organic forms of their subjects, as if embedded in and taking nourishment from the land itself. Beech finds a strange beauty in isolation, in the 'lone voice' of the poet and marvels at the noble plight of the eponymous pine tree.
Born in Cannock, Staffordshire in 1953, Tim Beech was educated at Cannock Grammar School, Flintshire College of Technology and the University of Salford where he gained a Ph.D in Physical Chemistry. Tim now works for English Nature as an estate worker on Lullington Heath National Nature Reserve in the south of England. Tim is a member of Footwork, the collective of Sussex poets, and regularly performs his work.
