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In 2019, Ian was invited to guest edit Issue 12 of renowned poetry journal, Butcher’s Dog, alongside managing editor Jo Clement. Ian also compered the launch of the magazine at Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle in December.
Published in spring 2019, Zebra went to a second print run just eight weeks after its launch. The Yorkshire Times said of the book, ‘In all of its magnificent bounty Zebra must be one of the poetry collections of 2019.’…
The Poetry Review (109/2/Summer) Slim
The Simple Things (August) Two Men Walking
Contemporary Poetry from
the United Kingdom
(Platypus Press, 2019) Bare Branch
Butcher’s Dog (11) rubber pup at the queer rights in Chechnya rally
Magma (73) Darklight…
Ian’s debut full-length collection of poetry, Zebra, is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in April 2019.…
Ian’s poem ‘Return of the discotheque dancers’ – originally featured in The Rialto – was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2018. The poem is a celebration of the many lives lost to AIDS in the early …
The Rialto (91) Poetasters’ Cant
The Cottage
The Caterpillar (23) Sensible Shoes
The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 Return of the discotheque dancers Read Poem
Smoke Apple
Nine Lives (anthology) Into the frying pan
Some rules on villanelles
Coalscar Lake…
In 2017, Ian performed at several spoken word and literary events including Poets and Players and Bad Language in Manchester. To celebrate the launch of Ten: Poets of the New Generation he also read nationally at venues including the Southbank …
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” said the American poet Emily Dickinson, “I know that is poetry.”…the event that gave me the full Dickinson (or something like that)… was a reading by …
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.…
