First Book Coming Soon
Ian’s debut full-length collection of poetry, Zebra, is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in April 2019.…
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Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes
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 …
Readings
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 …
Review of ‘Ten: Poets of the New Generation’
“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 …
Ten: Poets of the New Generation
Launched at the London Literature Festival in October 2017, Ten: Poets of the New Generation, published by Bloodaxe Books, was described as ‘a showcase of ten of the most internationally in-demand Black and Asian poets in the UK’.
Ian …
Complete Works III
The Complete Works III is a national development programme for advanced BAME poets. The initiative was set up in 2008 to promote quality and diversity in poetry. A new intake of fellows is selected every four years. In 2016, Ian …
Hamish Canham Prize
Ian Humphreys has been announced as the winner of the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize 2016 with his poem ‘Zebra on East 55th and 3rd’.
“Several members of the panel selected it as their first choice in a strong …
Brontë Writer in Residence
Ian has been appointed Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 2023/24.…
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.…
