To Fold the Evening Star: New And Selected Poems - Softcover

Ian McMillan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784101885 ISBN 13: 9781784101886

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Ian McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections, distilling an essence of McMillan's diversiform poetry and short prose. Hilarity and tenderness, gravity and light, are interwoven into a bountiful poetic fibre. Brought up to date by a series of new and previously unpublished work, To Fold the Evening Star will satisy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike, providing an ample, lively assortment of the work.

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About the Author

Ian McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1957. He published his first Carcanet book of poems, The Changing Problem, in 1980. Now It Can Be Told appeared in 1983, Dad, the Donkey's On Fire in 1994. Selected Poems (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) has gone through several printings. He first made his name through his work with the Poetry Circus in the early 1980s. Since then he has become famous for his work in schools, radio and television (the Mark Radcliffe Show, The Verb, Poetry Please and Newsnight Review), as Poet in Residence for Barnsley F.C., and in poetry venues across the nation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784101885
• ISBN 13: 9781784101886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256