TOAST Mentoring - Andrew McMillan

You will send three poems for feedback with award winning poet Andrew McMillan. Andrew will read your poems and then spend up to 1 hour on video call with you giving you feedback and advice and answering any questions you might have. The video call will be arranged at a time that suits both yourself and your mentor.

Andrew McMillan's first collection, physical, was the only poetry collection to ever 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. In 2019 it was voted as one of the top 25 poetry books of the past 25 years by the Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize. He is a senior lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His latest collection is pandemonium, published by Jonathan Cape.