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
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. McMillan is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
When Andrew McMillan published his first poetry collection,
physical, in 2015, the response was extraordinary. A tidal wave of
praise pouring in from all sides marked it out as the sort of
once-in-a-generation debut that causes everyone to sit up and take
notice... physical was a collection unlike any other.
*Guardian*
Andrew McMillan's award-winning debut collection, physical, a raw
and tender exploration of gay love and desire, heralded him as a
new force in contemporary poetry.
*attitude*
Andrew McMillan’s wide-awake debut anatomises male desire and its
often thwarted expressions; these fresh and engaging poems enter
the temple of longing in honest search for what may be found there,
which turns out to be joy, desolation, secret languages, the
possibilities of transformation and of disappointment borne in
every touch.
*Mark Doty*
physical really announces Andrew McMillan and it feels like a long
while since a first book has managed this degree of tenderness and
candour, sensuality and vulnerability. “There is beauty in the
ordinary”, and every poem in this urgent, unflinching, exceptional
debut affirms this.
*Paul Farley*
Thom Gunn, the lodestar of this collection, said that poetry comes
from obsession and passion. Few first books are as passionate, as
carnal, as this one. McMillan’s work is a glorious, vivid
exploration of the body as the loved and broken ground on which we
meet and are transformed.
*Michael Symmons Roberts*
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