Andrew McMillan

Andrew McMillan’s debut collection, physical (Jonathan Cape, 2015), was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award; it also won a Somerset Maugham and an Eric Gregory Award. His second collection, playtime (Jonathan Cape, 2018), won the inaugural Polari Prize. His most collection is pandemonium (Jonathan Cape, 2021). With Mary Jean Chan, he coedited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022). He is professor of contemporary writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.