Andrew McMillan Livres

Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, this title features poems that confront what it is to be a man and interrogate the very idea of masculinity.

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past.Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100 Queer Poems presents an electrifying range of writing from the twentieth century to the present day.Questioning and redefining what we mean by a 'queer' poem, you'll find inside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Charlotte Mew and June Jordan, central contemporary figures such as Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, Carol Ann Duffy, Kei Miller, Kae Tempest, Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong, alongside thrilling new voices including Chen Chen, Richard Scott, Harry Josephine Giles, Verity Spott and Jay Bernard.Curated by two widely acclaimed poets, Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan, 100 Queer Poems moves from childhood and adolescence to forging new homes and relationships with our chosen families, from urban life to the natural world, from explorations of the past to how we find and create our future selves. It deserves a place on the shelf of every reader keen to discover and rediscover how queer poets speak to one another across the generations.

*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 pandemonium explore the fragility and depth of the human mind - in its panic and its troubled retreat - and map this turmoil onto the chaos and abundance of the garden. Depression is mirrored in the invasive, seemingly untreatable knotweed that slowly suffocates the garden, while the sky conspires in its sudden, terrifying clarity, 'as though the root of the world were ripped clean off'. McMillan has been celebrated for his unflinchingly frank depictions of the body and sexual love, but these new poems are raw dispatches from a mind in freefall, a body in trouble. Addressing a period of acute depression, they are less about physical union and completeness and more about fracture and distance: tender, savagely moving poems which stare, unblinkingly, into the sudden havoc and hurt of this world, searching for - and finally finding - some redemption.

The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England

Písanie Andrewa McMillana je surové a naliehavé. Jeho básne fungujú ako chválospevy mužského tela - mužského priateľstva a mužskej lásky -, sú plné svalov, občas šokujú, vždy sú však hlboko dojemné. Vo svojich intímnych, niekedy až bolestivo úprimných básňach nás autor vracia do obdobia detstva a skorého dospievania. Zisťuje, akými cestami dospievame a ako dorastáme do svojich sexuálnych a dospelých identít. Uvažuje o prechodových rituáloch, o dilemách a traumách, ktoré nás tvarujú - či už ide o poruchy príjmu potravy, masturbáciu, alebo stratu panenstva. Zároveň skúma, ako prostredníctvom tela mapujeme cestu k nájdeniu vlastného ja. Andrew McMillan (1988) je jeden z najvýraznejších autorov súčasnej mladej britskej poézie. Vydal tri zbierky básní - telo (2015), čas hier (2018) a pandemonium (2021). Za svoju tvorbu získal množstvo významných cien. V súčasnosti pripravuje vydanie svojho debutového románu. Vydanie knihy z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia, ktorý je hlavným partnerom projektu.