Ian Whiteley is an English poet, singer/songwriter and performer.
He has published 3 books of poetry – A Step Towards Winter (2013), The Cycle Of The Scarecrow (2016) and There Are No Angels Here (2019).
He has also released a CD collection of poetry – Black & White & Read All Over (2019).
He has a music project under the name The Crows Of Albion – and has released 4 CD’s of poetry, music and songs under this project – Poetic License (2013), Still In The War Boys (2014), Here There Be Demons (2015) and Screaming Blue Murder (2018).
For more information, or to purchase any of the above items, visit his website www.thecrowsofalbion.com
He is also one quarter of the political poetry/music/comedy collective Bard Company – who have released 2 CD’s of material – All Systems Go! (2017) and Raising The Standards (2019) for more information or to purchase the CD’s visit the website www.bardcomany.co.uk
Ian hosts 2 open mic poetry nights – Getting Gobby In The Lobby in Wakefield and Write Out Loud @ The Old Courts in Wigan
All the albums can be listened to and/or downloaded on Bandcamp: https://thecrowsofalbion.bandcamp.com/
Ian’s debut performance on 25 April at 16:00
Ian Whiteley
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