To Fold the Evening Star

* Renowned 'Bard of Barnsley'* Presenter of Radio 3's The Verb and the T.S. Eliot Awards* Prolific tweeter with a huge online following (25.5k) of poetry fans

Hotly-anticipated new collection from one of Britain's most treasured living poetsIan McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections, distilling an essence of McMillan's diversiform poetry and short prose. Hilarity and tenderness, gravity and light, are interwoven into a bountiful poetic fibre. Brought up to date by a series of new and previously unpublished work, To Fold the Evening Star will satisy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike, providing an ample, lively assortment of the work.