I Found This Shirt

Poems and Prose from the Centre

McMillan Ian

"I Found This Shirt" is a sack of poems and prose pieces that continue Ian McMillan's obsessive exploration of self, place, history and comedy: from columns for BBC Radio 4, to a poetic journal of a Mexican visit; from poems written especially for Arts Management Weekly to poems rejected by editors as too Bizarre for children.

The centre where Ian McMillan finds his shirt is a wide area, but at the very centre of that centre is his native Barnsley and environs, the inexhaustible field of his human researches and the source of his voice's timbre. McMillan's unstinting work in schools, his radio and television programmes make him a uniquely qualified commentator on landscapes and lives which survive unobserved and overlooked.

About the Author

Ian McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1957. He published his first Carcanet book of poems, "The Changing Problem", in 1980. "Now It Can Be Told appeared" in 1983, "Dad, the Donkey's On Fire" in 1994. "Selected Poems" (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) has gone through several printings. He first made his name through his work with the Poetry Circus in the early 1980s. Since then he has become famous for his work in schools, radio and television (the Mark Radcliffe Show, The Verb, Poetry Please and Newsnight Review), as Poet in Residence for Barnsley F. C., and in poetry venues across the nation.

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