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Ian McMillan FRSL (born 21 January 1956) is an English poet, journalist, playwright, and broadcaster. He is known for his strong and distinctive Yorkshire accent and his incisive, friendly interview style on programmes such as BBC Radio 3 's The Verb .
Ian McMillan (b. 1956) is one of the UK’s best known contemporary poets. Aside from many books (for adults and children), sometimes including prose and plays, he has also made appearances on television, on all the national BBC radio channels (through which he was recently listed as the 22nd most powerful person in radio), in diverse ...
His poetry and prose collections for adults include Dad, the Donkey's on Fire (1994), I Found This Shirt: Poems and Prose from the Centre (1998) and Perfect Catch (2000), a collection of poems, plays and other writings. His poetry for children includes Elephant Dreams (1998) and The Invisible Villain (2002).
- Darfield, South Yorkshire, England
- Carcanet Press Ltd
Ian McMillan is a poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. He presents The Verb on BBC R3 and writes poems about his life by the sea, his sporting history, and the Christmas Day truce of 1914.
Ian McMillan is a poet, presenter and resident for various organisations. He has published several collections with Carcanet and collaborated with cartoonist Tony Husband on The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man.
Ian McMillan is a poet and performer from Yorkshire, as well as a playwright, journalist, and all-round poetry whirlwind. As well as writing and performing his own work, for both adults and children, he is a tireless champion of poetry and the spoken arts, and a campaigner for the arts to be for everybody. He has been described by Poet Laureate ...
the poet. Presenter of BBC Radio 3's The Verb, compère of the annual T S Eliot Prize Readings, writer, broadcaster and recent recipient of The Freedom of Barnsley, Ian McMillan is a renowned British poet who's been everywhere and done more.
