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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Category Archives: Publications
2024
| 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 |
2023
| 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 – |
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 Read poems Creative Writing: A Workbook with…
2021
| The Rialto (96) | The wood warbler’s song |
| Matter 20 | Scrimshander |
| Sheffield Hallam University | The other lot |
| Guest writer | On spilling a jug of Mai Tai |
| BBC Contains Strong Language | Swifts and the awakening city |
| Commission | |
| Russia’s first international HIV & |
2020
The Rialto (94) Darkwater
The Poetry Society …
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…
2018
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…
2017
The Poetry Review (107/4/Winter) Bare Branch
The Poetry Review (107/4/Winter) touch-me-not
Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe) The Man in the Rah-Rah Skirt
The Mind Gap
Skye and Sea
Zebra on East 55th and 3rd Read Poem…
2016
The Rialto (87) Dragged Under Read Poem and Review
The Rialto (86) Stubborn Cow Read Poem
Prole Pants on Fire
Avis Children of the Moon
Ink Sweat & Tears breathless
tree stone sky stream (anthology –
University of Macau and…
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.…
