Ian Harker is co-founder of Strix magazine and an organiser of Leeds Lit Fest. He has been shortlisted for the Troubadour and Bridport prizes, and was a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition. He was also poet in residence at the Henry Moore Institute. He has two previous books with Templar Poetry, including his first collection ‘Rules of Survival’. In 2023 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Leeds Trinity University for services to poetry; and his pamphlet ‘A – Z of Superstitions’ is out now from Yaffle Press.
