Physical

Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Raw 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 an...