Summary
A ‘BOOKS OF 2021’ PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE
After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan’s third book marks a shift- both inward, into the difficult world of mental health, and outwards into the natural and political world.
Keeping his trademark breath-space and lower-case lines, but more formally experimental, incorporating sequences and sonnets, the poems in p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787333192 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787333191 |
| Author: | Andrew McMillan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
A moving exploration of mental health.
A moving exploration of mental health. * i, Entertainment to look forward to this Spring *
A fascinating collection - troubling and moving to read… McMillan has mastered the art of self-reproach… [an] exceptional vigil of a book. – Kate Kellaway * Observer, Poetry Book of the Month *
About The Author
Andrew McMillan
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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