partings
$30.18
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2027
Summary
An achingly beautiful new collection about a break-up and its losses, sorrows and eventual solace.
The poems in Andrew McMillan’s deeply moving fourth collection present a series of separations. Lovers, long-term and fleeting, part ways; the self, as we know it, becomes estranged from itself; the poetic line fractures - splits apart - in order to let in breath, take stock: so raw memories may close, and slowly heal.
With stark honesty, and no hint of self-righteousness, these …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787335929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787335925 |
| Author: | Andrew McMillan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is the author of:
- Three poetry collections
- A novel
- The co-editor of the anthology 100 Queer Poems
His work has been widely translated across Europe and has won:
- The Guardian First Book Award (the only poetry collection to ever do so)
- A Somerset Maugham Award
- An Eric Gregory Award
- The Polari Prize
- A Northern Writers’ Award
He has been shortlisted for:
- The Dylan Thomas Prize
- The Forward Prizes
- The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
He is Professor of Contemporary Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed an MBE for Services to Literature in 2026.
A fourth collection, partings, will be published in February 2027.
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