Ian Humphreys’ latest collection, Tormentil (Nine Arches Press) won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award, and was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2024. In 2025, he won the Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry for a collection inspired by the Brontës (work in progress). He was Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (2023/24), and is a Fellow of The Complete Works. Ian has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry, and his work has been widely and internationally published by, among others, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and the BBC.