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My Sand Life, My Pebble Life
Celebrated poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan transports you to a world of childhoods by the sea in this warm, darkly funny and sublimely crafted book.
Talking Myself Home
A regular on Radio 4, he had been described by the Observer as the funniest, quirkiest, sharpest poet, comedian and broadcaster in the business. Born in Yorkshire in 1956, he still lives there today and is poet-in-residence at Barnsley FC. With signature down-to-earth charm, Talking Myself Home tells Ian's life story in poems. Hilarious memories blend with acute observations: from his formation of Barnsleys first folk-rock band Oscar and the Frog and his stint working at a tennis-ball factory, to raising his three children and coming to terms with his parents' deaths. It is the story of a place where coal-pits once dominated the skyline. With its milk floats and jumble sales, municipal library and church halls, it is a small corner of the world. Yet its a corner that sings. Talking Myself Home is also Ian's personal homage to the power of words in shaping his life. And these playful, haunting poems are, themselves, testaments to the imaginative delights of words.
Neither Nowt Nor Summat
I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clich�s, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regu...
To Fold the Evening Star
'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 McMillan. 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)
I Found this Shirt
This sack of poems and prose pieces - the third collection by the sometimes surreal, always hilarious poet - continues McMillan's obsessive exploration of self, place, history and comedy.
A Chin?
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Ideas Have Legs
This work is the result of a collaboration between two artists - Andy Martin, seasoned imagemaker, visually interprets the poetry and prose of writer and broadcaster Ian McMillan.
To Fold the Evening Star
Lauded as a 'national treasure' and 'world class' by his contemporaries, 'Bard of Barnsley' Ian McMillan is one of Britain's well-loved poets, performers, broadcasters and entertainers. The host of The Verb, BBC Radio 3's Cabaret of The Word, McMillan has been injecting soul and vibrancy into the UK literary scene for over two decades. His humorous and witty observations of everyday life, fused with his northern, working-class voice has made him a household name. This long-awaited collection brings together poems from his previous publications plus new and unseen ones.
Chelp and Chunter
Discover the origins of many well-known phrases, and learn a few more with this humorous and insightful examination of the Tyke dialect.
