Ian’s latest poetry collection, Tormentil (Nine Arches Press) won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award, and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2024. His debut collection Zebra (Nine Arches) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry, and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath, both from Nine Arches. Ian was Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (2023/24), and is a Fellow of The Complete Works. He has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry, and is published by, among others, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and the BBC.