Andrew McMillan

I can't ever remember not writing, so there’s not one point of genesis I could pinpoint and say that’s it, that’s the reason I write. I like poetry to deal with the unpoetic, with the everyday and the mundane. I like the rhythms of people’s accents and the wonderful things that ordinary people on the street say to each other; poetry shouldn’t be about writing the extraordinary, it should be about taking the ordinary and showing it to be extraordinary. 

Biography

Andrew McMillan has been poet-in-residence of his own life for 20 years.  Born and raised in Barnsley, he spent his formative years in the South Yorkshire town until being exiled to Lancaster where he now lives and studies.  He edits Lancaster’s new literary magazine, Cake, alongside fellow poet Martha Sprackland.

Publication history

Readings

• Ilkley Literature Festival (Forthcoming October 2009)
• The Poetry Business National Poetry Day Event (October 2008)
• Ilkley Literature Festival (October 2008)

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Awards

• Shortlisted for the Grist Poetry Prize (2009)