Ideas have legs

the long version

This book is the result of two artists collaborating WORDS versus PICTURES. Ian McMillan writer and broadcaster and Andy Martin seasoned imagemaker poetry and prose from one - visually interpreted by the other. The result is a lavish book of ideas, oceans of notions. A mixture of the wry and the poignant rendered with the eye of a magpie. This groundbreaking collaboration--or, as the artists would have it, this groundbreaking bout--between the well-known writer Ian McMillan and the seasoned imagemaker Andy Martin, pits McMillan's robust poetry and prose against Martin's punchy visual interpretations. The result is a lavish book of ideas, oceans of notions, a mixture of the wry and the poignant, rendered in media ranging across digital illustration, photography, found imagery and painting, ingeniously edited into a consistent, entertaining and delightful whole. Ian McMillan is a poet and broadcaster with a following in both capacities, and Andy Martin is a widely respected illustrator in many mediums whose regular contributions to UK newspapers are instantly recognizable.