Beyond 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan — Saturday 20 May 2023, 1–4pm UK

In this session we will be exploring some of the poems from the 100 Queer Poems anthology and using them as a jumping off point for our work that explores the self, the body, and who we are in the world.

Max: 30 ppl
Price £20
Duration 3 hours

Andrew McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1988.  physical was the only poetry book to ever win the Guardian First Book Award; it was also awarded a Somerset Maugham award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and in 2019 was voted as one of the Top 25 Poetry Books of the Past 25 Years by the Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize. A third collection, pandemonium, was published in 2021 and in 2022 he co-edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems, which was shortlisted in the British Book Awards. He is professor of contemporary writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Pity, a novel, is published by Canongate next year.

If you are unable to attend this workshop, we’re pleased to be able to make a session recording available for purchase for limited duration viewing — PLAYBACK: Beyond 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan.