Poetry Reading: Andrew McMillan

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Date: 
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 7:00pm
Host: 
Southern Connecticut State University
Location: 
Lyric Hall
827 Whalley Ave.
New Haven, CT 06515
Description: 

Poet Andrew McMillan of Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England, reads from his debut collection physical, the first poetry collection to win The Guardian's First Book Award.
McMillan's physical also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2015. In 2014 he received a substantial Northern Writers' Award. He currently lectures in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University and lives in Manchester, England.