Ian Parks
Ian Parks was born in 1959 and was one of the National Poetry Society New Poets in 1996. His first collection, which received a Yorkshire Arts Award, was published in 1986. He was made a Hawthornden Fellow in 1991 and received a Traveling Fellowship to the USA in 1994.
His collections include A Climb Through Altered Landscapes (1998), Shell Island (2006) and The Cage (2009). His most recent collection, Love Poems 1979-2009 was published in 2010 by Flux Gallery Press, and a pamphlet, The Paston Letter was published by Rack Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, The London Magazine, The Liberal, Stand and Tears in the Fence. He taught creative writing at the University of Leeds until 2008 and now writes full time.
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