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Ian McMillan: Were you at The Empire’s final show?
03 Jan 2025 00:04 GMT
Over the Christmas period I managed to Sellotape myself to the settee for long enough to watch one of my favourite films, White Christmas.
People say, with some justification, that’s it’s a shallow and sentimental film which is fine because I’m a shallow …
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Hometown serves as inspiration in artist’s book
13 Jan 2025 08:08 GMT
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Richard will release his book ‘From Life’ on January … The book contains contributions from writers including Barnsley’s own Ian McMillan … who kindly wrote an appreciation for my book … painting in 2023.”
The book is currently available for …
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Ian McMillan: It’s well worth pondering our road network…
06 Dec 2024 03:31 GMT
… might call a road the Ian McMillan Parkway, with a statue of … end, like a pair of bookends!
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Poet Ian McMillan on hand to open library designed by youngsters
22 Nov 2024 08:35 GMT
… with the help of book-loving pupils.
Greenfield Primary … got involved in building the bookcases.
Deputy headteacher, Rebecca Wright, … helped to pick the bookcases, they helped with the … opening, poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan visited the school yesterday, …
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Ian McMillan: It’s funny how certain names are disappearing…
22 Nov 2024 04:05 GMT
The name’s McMillan, Ian McMillan, licensed to fade away. Well, … profile as I began to publish my painstakingly-written but little … .
Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books, was a well …
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Poems about pies, the foul-mouthed parrot upstaging Margaret Atwood and starting World War III via Desert Island Discs: Ian McMillan on the Country Life Podcast
30 Sep 2024 14:32 GMT
… the poet, broadcaster and writer Ian McMillan.
Ian, one of Britain … .twitter.com/4cnTN0WQxQ
— Ian McMillan (@IMcMillan) September 27, 2024
Ian … 2018-2024 is out now, published by Faber (£20)
Giles …
Listen to best-selling author Rosamund Young on the latest …
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Book review: Under the Changing Skies: The best of the Guardian’s Country Diary, 2018–2024
29 Nov 2024 00:20 GMT
… and the observed.
The poet Ian McMillan, in his affectionate introduction, sees … : at the centre of the book, 50 species of flora and … Faber Publishing £20
(978-1-78335-310-1)
Church Times Bookshop £18
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Ian McMillan: Open mic nights are a must!
27 Sep 2024 03:38 GMT
I’ve always enjoyed standing up in a room and reading a poem to a delighted (or snoring, or talking amongst themselves, or getting up to got to the bar to buy a pint) crowd.
There’s something almost timeless about hearing somebody say your name and then …
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Ian McMillan: Bus services still aren’t up to scratch
13 Sep 2024 13:21 GMT
I was buoyed up by that optimistic piece in the Chronicle last week headlined ‘Control Over Bus Services Edging Closer’ as the long journey towards the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority running the buses takes another step forward because, let’s …
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The Coal Anthology: Book of miners' strike poems, prose and photographs to launch at NCMME
08 Nov 2024 10:04 GMT
… Poet Sarah Wimbush, author of STRIKE (Stairwell Books, 2024), worked … 39; poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan, former national poet of … hundreds of poets.it publishes books, pamphlets and The North … advanced writing school for published poets.
National Coal …