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Andrew McMillan

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Nominee:Costa Book Award -Poetry (2015)

Nominee:Dylan Thomas Prize -Literary Excellence (2016)

Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body--to male friendship and male love--muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of the flesh: a flesh vital with the vulnerability of love and loss, to desire and its departure. In an extraordinary blend of McMillan's own colloquial Yorkshire rhythms with a sinewy, Metaphysical music and Thom Gunn's torque and speed--"your kiss was deep enough to stand in"--the poems in this first collection confront what it is to be a man and interrogate the very idea of masculinity. This is poetry where every instance of human connection, from the casual encounter to the intimate relationship, becomes redeemable and revelatory. Dispensing with conventional punctuation, the poet is attentive and alert to the quality of breathing, giving the work an extraordinary sense of being vividly poised and present--drawing lines that are deft, lyrical, and perfectly pitched from a world of urban dereliction. An elegant stylist and unfashionably honest poet, McMillan's eye and ear are tuned, exactly, to both the mechanics of the body and the miracles of the heart.

Book Details

Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2015
Pages: 64
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.60in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.15lb
EAN: 9780224102131
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica

About the Author

Andrew McMillan lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. In 2014 he won a substantial Northern Writer's Award.

Praise for this book

- "His seriousness of tone and address is electrifyingly fresh and lyrical. He takes the weight of language seriously but balances it with play and deft control... Andrew McMillan is already a poet of considerable achievement." --David Morley

- "His language makes a quite exquisite, sometimes Pinteresque music of love with perfectly pitched cadences of speech." --William Bedford