2022

The Poetry Review (Winter)                                                 the grasshopper warbler’s song

Poetry London (Summer)                                                     Wasp in a jam jar

100 Queer Poems (Vintage)                                                 touch-me-not

After Sylvia (Nine Arches)                                                    shadow shifter

Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal                                  3 poems

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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Open University’s creative writing degree course book) Routledge, 2nd Ed. Treading Water 

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The Dark Horse                                                                 Wall Town

The Caterpillar (Autumn)                                                 At the Halloween party

Bad Lilies                                                                           Rope-grown mussels & Mouse-ear Hawkweed 

Tyger Tyger                                                                        The boy who ate the sky

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Quiet Man Dave Prize (Finalist)                                        Whose Story? 	
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The Caterpillar (Spring)                                                     The Girl Who Slept Through Seasons

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Poetry Prize

Poetry Prize

Ian’s second collection, Tormentil, due from Nine Arches Press in September 2023, has won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award while in progress.