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Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book AwardWinner of the 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First CollectionRaw 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
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
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