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<p>In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those dilemmas and traumas that shape us eating disorders, masturbation, loss of virginity the poet examines how we use bodies, both our own and other peoples, to chart our progress towards selfhood.</p><p>McMillans award-winning debut collection,<i>physical</i>, was praised for a poetry that was tight and powerful, raw and tender, and<i>playtime</i>expands that narrative frame and widens the gaze. Alongside poems in praise of the naivety of youth, there are those that explore the troubling intersections of violence, masculinity, class and sexuality, always taking the reader with them towards a better understanding of our own physicality.<i>isnt this what human kind was made fo</i><i>r</i>, McMillan asks in one poem,<i>telling stories learning where the skin/is most in need of touch</i>. These humane and vital poems are confessions, both in the spiritual and personal sense; they tell us stories that some of us, perhaps, have never found the courage to read before.</p>

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<b>AndrewMcMillan</b>s debut,<i>physical</i>, was the first poetry collection to win the<i>Guardian</i>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 was shortlisted fornumerous others including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the<i>Sunday Times</i>Young Writer of the Year and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is a senior lecturer in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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