Ian McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1956. He published his first Carcanet book of poems, The Changing Problem, in 1980. His Selected Poems (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) has gone through several printings, and I Found this Shirt is now in its third printing. To Fold the Evening Star: New and Selected Poems was published in 2016. He first made his name in the Circus of Poets in the 1980s. Since then he has made his living as a writer, performer and broadcaster. He has presented the literary programme The Verb on BBC Radio since 2002. He is Poet In Residence at Barnsley Football Club and indeed he has the Freedom of Barnsley.