{"product_id":"100-queer-poems-andrew-mcmillan","title":"100 Queer Poems (Andrew Mcmillan)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, \u003ci\u003e100 Queer Poems,\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* A \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Best Poetry Book of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e* Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, \u003ci\u003e100 Queer Poems\u003c\/i\u003e presents an electrifying range of writing from the twentieth century to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuestioning and redefining what we mean by a 'queer' poem, you'll find inside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Charlotte Mew and June Jordan, central contemporary figures such as Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, Carol Ann Duffy, Kei Miller, Kae Tempest, Natalie Diaz and Ocean Vuong, alongside thrilling new voices including Chen Chen, Richard Scott, Harry Josephine Giles, Verity Spott and Jay Bernard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurated by two widely acclaimed poets, Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan, \u003ci\u003e100 Queer Poems\u003c\/i\u003e moves from childhood and adolescence to forging new homes and relationships with our chosen families, from urban life to the natural world, from explorations of the past to how we find and create our future selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Abundantly rich and rewarding...capturing how queer poets and their work speak to one another across generations' \u003ci\u003eAttitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'More than a landmark volume... An anthology that marks the present moment and ushers in a new one' Okechukwu Nzelu, author of \u003ci\u003eHere Again Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAndrew McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e's first collection, \u003ci\u003ephysical\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award; it also won a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers' Award and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection, \u003ci\u003eplaytime\u003c\/i\u003e, won the inaugural Polari Prize, and his most recent collection is \u003ci\u003epandemonium\u003c\/i\u003e. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePity\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Canongate in 2024. McMillan is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\n\u003cb\u003eMary Jean Chan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eFlèche\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2019 Costa Poetry Award and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. In 2021, \u003ci\u003eFlèche\u003c\/i\u003e was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Chan is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, they currently live in Oxford.\n\u003cb\u003eOcean Vuong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections \u003ci\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of the MacArthur 'Genius Grant' and the American Book Award, he was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently splits his time between western Massachusetts and New York City.\nKAE TEMPEST has been putting words together since he was a teenager. He has published plays, poetry collections, non-fiction, a \u003ci\u003eSunday Time\u003c\/i\u003es-bestselling novel and has released six studio albums. In 2013 Tempest won the Ted Hughes Award, making him the youngest ever poet to receive it. He was named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once-in-a-decade honour, and in the same year he received the first of two Mercury Prize nominations. He is the only person to have achieved both accolades. In 2021 he was awarded the Silver Lion in Venice for his work as a playwright and in 2023 he won an Ivor Novello for his songwriting. His books have been translated into multiple languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. He hopes he will continue putting words together for the rest of his life.\n\u003cb\u003eAudre Lorde\u003c\/b\u003e was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.\nMary Oliver was born in rural Ohio in 1935. The author of more than 15 collections of poetry and essays, she is one of America's best-selling poets. Among her many honours, she was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Primitive\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and a National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems, Volume One \u003c\/i\u003e(1992). She received the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. For four decades, she lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her partner Molly Malone Cook, writing while walking outside with her notebook.\n\u003cb\u003eSeán Hewitt\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eTongues of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRapture's Road\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eAll Down Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWide\u003c\/i\u003e. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on \u003ci\u003e300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAncient World\u003c\/i\u003e. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\n\u003cb\u003eJune Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of ten books of poetry, seven collections of essays, two plays, a libretto, a novel, a memoir, five children's books, and \u003ci\u003eJune Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint.\u003c\/i\u003e As a professor at UC Berkeley, Jordan established Poetry for the People, a program to train student teachers to teach the power of poetry from a multicultural worldview. She was a regular columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Progressiv\u003c\/i\u003ee and her articles appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms., Essence, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. She died of breast cancer in 2002.\n\u003cb\u003eKaveh Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCalling a Wolf a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/i\u003e, and has received honours such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.\nJay Bernard is the author of the pamphlets \u003ci\u003eYour Sign is Cuckoo, Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (Tall Lighthouse, 2008), \u003ci\u003eEnglish Breakfast\u003c\/i\u003e (Math Paper Press, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Red and Yellow Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e (Ink Sweat \u0026amp; Tears Press, 2016), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2017. A film programmer at BFI Flare and an archivist at Statewatch, they also participated in 'The Complete Works II' project in 2014 and in which they were mentored by Kei Miller. Jay was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2005 and a winner of SLAMbassadors UK spoken word championship. In 2019 Jay was selected by Jackie Kay as one of Britain's ten best BAME writers for the British Council and National Centre for Writing's International Literature Showcase. 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