Tim Cumming

Tim Cumming (born 1963) is a British poet.

Tim Cumming was born in Father Hudson’s Children’s Home in 1963 in Solihull and was brought up in the west country. He has lived in London since 1982. His poems have appeared in magazines including The Wide Skirt, Echo Room, The North, Scratch, Dog, Magma, Poetry London, The London Magazine and the online magazines Boomerang and Limelight.

Works
His first pamphlet, The Miniature Estate was published by Smith Doorstop in 1991, and Scratch published the pamphlet version of Apocalypso the following year. Stride published his first collection Apocalypso (1999) and The Rumour (2004), and Wreckingball Press brought out the book-length cinematic poem Contact Print in 2002.

His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including three editions of The Forward Book of Poetry, and its 2004 Best of the Decade anthology, and Bloodaxe Books’ major 2010 anthology of poetry from Ireland and the British Isles, Identity Parade. The Rapture was published by Salt in 2011 and Etruscan Miniatures, a suite of poems set in the Etruscan landscapes of Orvieto, illustrated with his own paintings, was published by Pitt Street Poetry in 2013.

His work has been broadcast on BBC radio and TV, and he has been featured in the New Voices season at the South Bank Centre in London, and his film poems, including Radio Carbon (2009) and Flowers (2012) have been shown at film poem festivals in Canada, Argentina, Scotland, England and Serbia.

He writes regularly for newspapers including The Independent and The Guardian on music and the arts and in 2007 he made the acclaimed film, Hawkwind: Do Not Panic, a documentary for the BBC about the space rock legends Hawkwind.

His paintings have been shown at the Rowley Gallery on Kensington Church Street in west London, and at Slader’s Yard in West Bay, Dorset, from November to February 2014.