Ian McMillan 
Yes But What Is This? What Exactly? 

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 Mc Millan poems often can’t help being very funny, while also being, as usual, more serious than they seem, and more hurt.

About the author

Ian Mc Millan (b. 1956) is one of the UK’s best known contemporary poets. He presents The Verb every week on BBC R3 and he is a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Pick of the Week, You & Yours, Last Word and The Arts Show. He’s been a castaway on Desert Island Discs. Previously he was resident poet for English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet. His collections with Carcanet include The Changing Problem (1980), Now It Can Be Told (1983) and Dad, the Donkey’s On Fire (1994). His Selected Poems was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.