About the Author

Ian Pople was born in Ipswich and educated at the British Council, Athens, and the universities of Aston, Manchester and Nottingham. He has taught English in secondary and higher education in the UK, Sudan, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He taught at the University of Manchester for over twenty years.

Reviews

'Ian Pople writes poems of such intense observation they amount to a kind of grace. In his concise idylls, undeceived odes, and scrupulous ekphrastics, the sometimes ominous and always indigenous details resolve as if by action-at-a-distance to a mystery that never decays into cynicism or belief. It feels suddenly timely as well as sustaining to have his vision assembled in a major selection at last.' - Douglas Crase';[an] acute eye for the detail of the human world as well as the natural one' - Ian McMillan