2025
| Magma | Rabbit in a drystone wall |
| The Book of Bogs (Little Toller) | The Dog Star Quartet |
| – Moor music | |
| – Gytrash | |
| – Fragments | |
| – A candle at the doorway | |
| Nature Matters (Faber) | Pansies |
| Ten Poems about Weeds (Candlestick Press) | Mouse-ear |
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| Magma | Rabbit in a drystone wall |
| The Book of Bogs (Little Toller) | The Dog Star Quartet |
| – Moor music | |
| – Gytrash | |
| – Fragments | |
| – A candle at the doorway | |
| Nature Matters (Faber) | Pansies |
| Ten Poems about Weeds (Candlestick Press) | Mouse-ear |
| The Poetry Review (Autumn) | Elder |
| Poetry London (Summer) | Emily’s tree |
| GRAVY zine | Earthworm on tarmac, Pinch, What is that smoke? I can’t light the fire |
| Fyne Times (January) | touch-me-not |
| Fyne Times (June) | Return of the discotheque dancers |
| No net ensnares |
Ian has been appointed Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 2023/24.…
| The Rialto (100) | desire |
| Perspective Magazine | There’s a walrus on my windscreen |
| Read poem | |
| The Halifax Directory | Tormentil (Poem of the Month) |
| WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology | Babysitting in Ho Man Tin (Verve) |
| Mapping the Future – |
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 Read poems Creative Writing: A Workbook with…
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.…
Ian is working on a new poem and short film in collaboration with Ascension Dance Company to debut at the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in September. He has also been appointed a festival poet at Contains Strong Language which …
Ian has won an Arts Council England Lottery Funded Project Grant to produce an anthology of poems and essays in response to the legacy of Sylvia Plath. He will co-edit the book, which will be published by Nine Arches Press, …

Ian has been appointed Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 2023/24.…
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.…