Ian Parks - The Sons of Darkness and the Sons of Light

Ian Parks reads from his new collection The Sons of Darkness and the Sons of Light, published by Crooked Spire Press. With guest readings from Bob Beagrie, Gaia Holmes, Vanessa Lampert and Charlotte Wetton.

Ian Parks is from Mexborough. An academic and a poet, he has run the Read to Write project in Doncaster for a decade. He is the editor of Versions of the North: Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry and the Selected Poems of Harold Massingham. His translations of the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy were a Poetry Book Society Choice. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Morning Star, and Poetry (Chicago). He has been a Hawthornden Fellow since 1991 and has held residencies at Gladstone’s Library and at De Montfort, Leicester. His Selected Poems 1983-2023 is published by Calder Valley Poetry.