Poems

You can find examples of Ian’s work by visiting the links below. This includes writing, live performance, and reviews.

Interview with Welcome to Leeds about Leeds Lit Fest 2023 (click here)

‘Sea Interlude, Blackpool 1987’ & ‘Traffic Update: Tony Harrison’ used in Key Stage 5 creative learning resources, Leeds 2023 (click here)

The Poetry Supertram, Chapel FM, 2022 (click here)

‘The Porn’, Riggwelter issue 28, 2020 (click here)

‘Lovesong of a Wiley Old Pike’, The Poetry Village, 2019 (click here)

‘Ventrial Stenosis: operated’, issue 1 of Bonnie’s Crew, 2019 (click here)

‘Sea Interlude, Blackpool 1987’, BBC Proms Poetry Competition, 2018 (click here)

Review of Adnan al-Sayegh, ‘Pages from the Biography of an Exile’ (click here)

‘Solstice’, Three Drops from a Cauldron, midwinter issue 2018 (click here)

Article about the Belfast Poetry Jukebox, The Irish Times, 2017 (click here)

Poem of the Week, John Foggin’s poetry blog, 2017 (click here)

‘Right Now’, Carole Bromley’s YorkMix blog (click here)

‘Loiner’, runner-up, Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2016 (click here)

Review of pamphlet ‘The End of the Sky’ by Helena Nelson in Sphinx Review (click here)

Kim Moore’s The Sunday Poem, 2015 (click here)

Collaboration with artist Chris Hall on expanded cinema live reading of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, 2010 (click here)

a brief biography…

Ian Harker is a poet and editor, co-founder of Strix magazine and an organiser of Leeds Lit Fest. He won the Templar Book & Pamphlet competition in 2015, which led to the publication of ‘The End of the Sky’ that same year, and ‘Rules of Survival’ in 2017. He has been shortlisted for the Troubadour and Bridport prizes, and a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition. He was also poet in residence at the Henry Moore Institute. His next pamphlet, ‘A - Z of Superstitions’, is forthcoming from Yaffle Press.