**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019** 'Vivid, accessible and honest,
sometimes uncomfortably so' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books In
these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan
takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the
different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult
identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those dilemmas
and traumas that shape us - eating disorders, masturbation, loss of
virginity - the poet examines how we use bodies, both our own and
other people's, to chart our progress towards selfhood. McMillan's
award-winning debut collection, physical, was praised for a poetry
that was tight and powerful, raw and tender, and playtime expands
that narrative frame and widens the gaze. Alongside poems in praise
of the naivety of youth, there are those that explore the troubling
intersections of violence, masculinity, class and sexuality, always
taking the reader with them towards a better understanding of our
own physicality. 'isn't this what human kind was made for',
McMillan asks in one poem, 'telling stories learning where the
skin/is most in need of touch'. These humane and vital poems are
confessions, both in the spiritual and personal sense; they tell us
stories that some of us, perhaps, have never found the courage to
read before.
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