Professor Andrew McMillan

My profile

Biography

McMillan’s first collection, physical (Jonathan Cape, 2015), 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. It saw him shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Polari First Book Prize. In 2019 it was voted as one of the top 25 poetry books of the past 25 years by the Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime (Jonathan Cape, 2018), won the inaugural Polari Prize.

He is a senior lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His latest collection is pandemonium, published by Jonathan Cape in 2021. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in French, German, Galician, Norwegian and Slovak translations.  A novel, pity, will be published by Canongate in 2024.

Interests and expertise

I teach poetry across undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as supervising PhD’s; I am interested in research focussing on the body, masculinity, and queer writing.  I also run the Teaching Creative Writing option unit at MA level 

Impact

Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)

Engaging New Audiences with Public Poetry

A research project by Manchester Met poets to bring poetry to new audiences through broadcast, performance, and commemoration.

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Teaching

Why do I teach?

Because I love it! It’s vital for any writer to stay in touch with a new generation of readers and writers, and to be constantly engaged in conversations around literature, both our understanding of it and the creation of it. 

Postgraduate teaching

Literature and Creative Writing- Poetry 

Research outputs

Masculinity, Sexuality,  The Body, Contemporary British and American Poetry