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Ian Caws has published 11 collections of poetry since 1975. His 12th, The Canterbury Road, is due to be published by Bluechrome. He has been a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award and of a Southern Arts Literature Bursary. In 1988, he was runner up in the National Poetry Competition, having been a prizewinner the year before. His 1990 collection, The Ragman Totts, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has published widely in magazines, newspapers and journals in the UK, as well as in the USA, Canada, Australia, India and Hong Kong. He is married with 5 grown up children and lives in West Sussex. His collections are: Looking for Bonfires (1975), Bruised Madonna (1979), Boy with a Kite (1981) The Ragman Totts (1990), Chamomile (1994), The Feast of Fools (1994), The Playing of the Easter Music (with Martin C. Caseley & B L Pearce, 1996), Herrick's Women (1996), Dialogues in Mask (2000), Taro Fair (2003) and The Blind Fiddler (2004). "Observant, searching, unrestful investigations into the shadows...humane feelings and an unusual power of construction".
John Fuller in the
Observer. "Gradually one becomes aware of the considerable technical skill that has contributed to their success: the poet's sure control of his syllabic stanza forms, his unobtrusive use of rhyme, the absence of superfluous embroidery".
Wendy Cope in the
TLS. "Caws enlarges our consciousness by writing of what is beyond our sight. He does so with tact, sensitivity and growing assurance". G B H Wightman in
British Book News. "Our poetry is safe and enduring as long as there are a few poems of the type created by Ian Caws in each generation of native poets". Kevin Bailey in Outposts.
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