Ian Pople
Poet
About
Dr Ian Pople’s first collection of poetry, The Glass Enclosure (Arc), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for a Forward prize. Ian published two other full collections with Arc, and four separate pamphlets. Anstruther Press, Toronto, Canada published his pamphlet, Spillway, in 2020. Individual poems from these collections were published in the UK in London Review of Books, Poetry Review, Times Literary Supplement and other journals. In North America, Ian has published poems in such journals as Antigonish Review, The New Criterion, Poetry, and Subtropics. In 2022, Carcanet published his Spillway: New and Selected Poems. Ian’s writing was described by Carol Rumens in The Guardian as that of a ‘quietly meticulous poet’ with ‘a verbal delicacy and fine-tuning’ and ‘a meditative intensity.’ Douglas Crase commented, ‘Ian Pople writes poems of such intense observation they amount to a kind of grace.’ Ian is also a widely published arts reviewer.
Ian 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 UK, Sudan, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He taught English for Academic Purposes at the University of Manchester for over twenty years. During that period at Manchester and later at the University of Salford, Ian taught academic writing skills to native and non-native speakers at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Ian has worked in a voluntary capacity with refugees. Currently, he volunteers with the Canal and River Trust at Tunnel End in Marsden.
