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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 ...
Ian McMillan Poetry - Poem Analysis. Salt, Pepper, Vinegar, History. In ‘Salt, Pepper, Vinegar, History,’ McMillan turns a chip shop visit into a deep musing on how history intertwines with the present. Home » Ian McMillan Poems. Ian McMillan was an English poet and broadcaster. He also worked as a journalist and playwright.
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.
This is the best of Ian McMillan's poetry bound in one volume. One of its selections is Try not to get bitten, by The Rhyming Bat, or that will be, the end of that Includes index
For me, if it’s not got rockers. it’s not a chair. It’s just a pile of sticks, and you can pick a pile of sticks up. on the street. For me, if there’s no flaps on the pockets. it’s not a suit.
by Ian McMillan. Artwork from the Christmas Tree banner in 2015, designed by Kate Austin. Step closer, please, and hear my song. It won’t take long, it won’t take long. I hold my secret in the frost. I keep my secret in the cold. I hold it tight; it can’t get lost: A secret as shiny as gold. Fly me high through winter air.
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. He lives in Darfield, the village of his birth.
