Andrew McMillan (External Editor) Andrew McMillan's first collection, physical, 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, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize, and his most recent collection is pandemonium. McMillan is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mary Jean Chan (External Editor) Mary Jean Chan is the author of Fl che, 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, Fl che 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.
The year's most notable anthology is 100 Queer Poems,
edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan. It has at its core a
generous and expansive definition of queerness that finds
room for poets such as WH Auden, John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop,
while including modern, innovative voices such as Verity Spott and
Harry Josephine Giles. With a thematic arrangement ranging across
relationships and families, the urban and natural world, and queer
histories and futures, there is a great sense of kinship running
through the poems -- The Best Poetry Books of 2022 * Guardian
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A diverse and gratifying new anthology of LGBTQ+ verse... this
is an abundantly rich and rewarding collection, capturing how queer
poets and their work speak to one another across generations *
attitude *
100 Queer Poems is more than a landmark volume; it
offers a golden opportunity for readers and writers to check in,
refresh, reconnect. Old favourites sit alongside emerging stars
and some surprises, gifting us with an anthology that marks the
present moment and ushers in a new one -- OKECHUKWU NZELU,
author of Here Again Now
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