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A puddle, lighthouses, the financial crisis (in three parts) or seeing a goal scored from a passing train, these typically sharp-eyed and brilliantly inventive McMillan poems often can't help being very funny, while also being, as usual, more serious than they seem, and more hurt.

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A puddle, lighthouses, the financial crisis (in three parts) or seeing a goal scored from a passing train, these typically sharp-eyed and brilliantly inventive McMillan poems often can't help being very funny, while also being, as usual, more serious than they seem, and more hurt.
Autorenporträt
Ian McMillan is a poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster. He has had several volumes of poetry published for both adults and children, and is an enthusiastic advocate of poetry.In addition he has had journalism published in Q magazine and Mojo magazine, and writes a weekly column in his home town's local newspaper, The Barnsley Chronicle. He has the unique honour of being the first poet in residence to a football club, his hometown Barnsley FC.Ian's first Smith Doorstop pamphlet, Tall in the Saddle, was published in 1986 — the company's first year of business; and his second was This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps in 2011, the Poetry Business' 25th anniversary year. He has two further pamphlets with Smith Doorstop: Ah've Soiled Ma Breeks (2012) and That's Not a Fishing Boat, It's a Giraffe (2019).