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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 July 2015

Poetry by individual poets

An extraordinary debut from a 26-year-old poet

Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award Winner of the 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection
*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award
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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.

Winner of the 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

By: Andrew McMillan
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 85g
ISBN: 9780224102131
ISBN 10: 0224102133
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 15 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew McMillan's first collection, physical, was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award; it also won a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers' Award and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize, and his most recent collection is pandemonium. His debut novel, Pity, was published by Canongate in 2024. McMillan is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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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

Long-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2015.
Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2016
Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2016 (UK)
Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2016
Short-listed for Forward Prizes for Poetry: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2015 (UK)
Short-listed for Polari First Book Prize 2016
Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2015.
Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2016.
Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize 2016.
Shortlisted for Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2015.

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