From Ian Humphreys’ second poetry collection, “Tormentil” (Nine Arches Press), which won a Royal Society of Literature “Literature Matters” Award while in progress. His first collection “Zebra” was nominated for the Portico Prize. Ian is the editor of “Why I Write Poetry” and the producer and co-editor of “After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath”, both published by Nine Arches Press. In 2023, he was appointed Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. He is widely published in journals and anthologies and has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works