Ian McMillan 
To Fold the Evening Star 
New and Selected Poems

‘World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers.’ (Carol Ann Duffy) ‘A force of nature.’ (Guardian) ‘An inspiring figure, an encouraging and democratic spirit, a strong and popular poet and one of the funniest people in Britain.’ (Poetry News) ‘It’s impossible not to like Mc Millan. If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday, a lot more people would be reading poetry by Monday.’ (Sue Arnold, Guardian) ‘The verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe.’ (Frome Festival) ‘Inching towards the status of a National Treasure.’ (Andy Kershaw) ‘The John Peel of poetry.’ (Alec Finlay)

A propos de l’auteur

Ian Mc Millan is among the UK’s most popular living poets. His books of poems, stories, and non-fiction have drawn audiences for almost forty years. Born in Barnsley in 1956, Ian became a freelance writer, performer and broadcaster in 1981. He worked for years with The Circus of Poets performance poetry group and Versewagon, the world’s first mobile writing workshop, and then with Martyn Wiley as Yakety Yak. Since then he has worked in schools, theatres, arts centres, fields and front rooms. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s weekly poetry programme The Verb and has written comedy for radio and plays for the stage, and has worked extensively for BBC radio and television. He has collaborated widely with composers, artists and cartoonists. He is an honorary doctor of Sheffield Hallam University, Staffordshire University, York St John’s University, Lancaster University, and Huddersfield University, and has been a Visiting Professor at Bolton University. Ian has been the poet-in-residence for English National Opera, The Academy of Urbanism, Humberside Police, and Barnsley FC. His many books of verse include The Changing Problem (Carcanet, 1980), Dad, the Donkey’s On Fire (Carcanet, 1994), Perfect Catch (Carcanet, 2000), Talking Myself Home (John Murray, 2008), and Jazz Peas (smith|doorstop, 2014). He still lives in his hometown Barnsley.