Description
Ian 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 Brought up to date by a series of new and previously unpublished work, To Fold the Evening Star will satisy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike, providing an ample, lively assortment of the work.






Strong in the Rain
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Comic Poems
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Now and Then
States of Happiness
101 Poems About Childhood
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
Signs Like This
Third World Girl: Selected Poems [with live readings DVD]