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Ian McMillan is Barnsley Football Club's celebrated Poet-in-Residence, Yorkshire TV's Investigative Poet and a regular on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please, Booked quiz and Front Row. On National Poetry Day he won the coveted Pinny on Ready, Steady, Cook. Talking Myself Home is Yorkshire poet, comedian and broadcaster Ian McMillan’s life story unfurled in a book of poems. Here’s a portrait of an unregarded place - Darfield, near Barnsley, a place mentioned (briefly) in the Domesday book and now trying to reinvent itself after the wholesale closure of the mining industry. And a love story between Lt Cdr J McMillan, a Scottish sailor and Olive Wood, a young lass in Yorkshire. Ian McMillan website.