Ian McEwen's poems have appeared in several magazines including Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Long Poem Magazine, Rialto and Poetry Review. 'The Stammering Man' was a winner in the 2010 Templar Pamphlet Competition and his first collection, Intermittent Beings, was published by Cinnamon in 2013. 'Father lost lost' from that collection was highly commended by the Forward Prize judges in the 2014 single poem category. Ian used to work in investment banking and holds a D.Phil. in the philosophy of mathematics. He is a trustee of a large charity, a board member of NAWE and lives in Bedford where he promotes the Ouse Muse open mic and the occasional BedSlam!.
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"[The] poems in this collection [are] engagingly varied, of uniformly sustained high quality, witty and often profound. There was not a moment when I felt that the form was not fully justified by the poetic effects created." - Dr Lauri Ramey, California State University, Los Angeles