Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew mcmillan

The Elsick Mounth is an ancient trackway, linking the River Dee to the Mearns, and is one of the routes featured in the new Scotsways guide on hill tracks. Mark and Rachel both met up with Colin Young, a Scotsways volunteer, who guided them along part of the route to point out some of the important historical and archaeological sites that can be seen from the track.Scotland's peatlands are an iconic part of the landscape, and have been undergoing targeted restoration across the country for the last fifteen years. Rachel visited Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, and met with their Peatland Action Project Officer, Tasha Craven, to find out more about the importance of this habitat.Edinburgh's New Town is full of important buildings and some exemplary stonework. Andrew McMillan is a member of the Edinburgh Geological Society, and has recently put together a guided tour of the area around St Andrew's Square, and Mark met with him to hear more about the area's impressive geoheritage.Lorraine McCall has an impressive list of mountain achievements to her name, having completed all the Corbetts and Munros, and being the first known woman to summit all the Grahams in a single journey – all while overcoming three separate cancer diagnoses. Rachel joined her on the Moray Coast to find out more about how she fared during these challenges.Mark and Rachel are joined by Iain Hepburn from Bright Spark Burning Techniques, to share his expertise on muirburn and it's use in fighting wild fires.Hedgehogs are beginning to emerge again in Scotland after their long hibernation, and the ‘Pledgehog' project, based in Dunbar, are gearing up for another year of helping to raise awareness of the little garden mammals. Rachel went along to meet up with Jen Walker, to find out how they are utilising trail cameras as part of local conservation efforts.

It's time for our annual roundup of the best moments from the podcast's last twelve months. We've had the great good fortune to enjoy the company of many guests - thank you to all of them. Most especially, thanks to those who appear on this episode discussing everything from horse gyms to Pizza Rat, Charles Dickens's raven to spouse cannibalism: Dr. Anna Ploszjaski, Victoria Melody, Andrew McMillan, Tom Price, Amy Mason, John Henry Falle, Ken Cheng, Mara Joy, Harry Stachini, Meredith Hackman, Sharon Wanjohi and Paul Duncan McGarrity.   Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward

Sommaren 2024 bjuder Bögbibblan på sjutton queerlitterära samtal med författare och poeter som alla är aktuella i årets utgivning.I det tredje avsnittet träffar vi författaren och poeten Andrew McMillan och pratar om hans nya roman Synd (Norstedts). En roman om en stad och om en nedlagd gruva och om tre generationer av män som försöker att karva ut sin lilla skärva i världen. I Synd rör sig människorna mellan nuets torftighet och minnet av hemstadens forna glansdagar. Välkommen till Bögbibblan Podcast – Din skeva bokhylla!________________Gäst: Andrew McMillan.Producent, klippning och grafisk formgivning: Makz Bjuggfält.Musik: Anna Hed.Fotograf Andrew McMillan: Sophie DavidsonSamtalet med Andrew spelades in i Stockholm i maj 2024._______________________Bögbibblan Podcast är en podd om queer litteratur. Du hittar Bögbibblan på bogbibblan.se och under namnet Bögbibblan på Spotify, Instagram och Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forfatter og psykolog Glenn Bech åpnet en større klassedebatt i Danmark med den selvbiografiske romanen Farskipet og manifestet Jeg anerkjenner ikke lenger deres autoritet, som begge nå er ute på norsk i Kyrre Andreassens oversettelse.I romanen Farskipet skildres en brutal oppvekst preget av vold, svik og giftig maskulinitet, men også ømhet og kjærligheten for familiene og arbeideklassemiljøet som skildres. Romanen ble omfavnet av den litterære offentligheten, og året etter fulgte Bech opp med Jeg anerkjenner ikke lenger deres autoritet, et rasende manifest om klassekamp, proletariat og elite. Her angriper han klasseforakten og den økonomiske blindheten i den kulturelle middelklassen i en selvransakende, høylytt og insisterende prosa som skildrer hva det vil si å være utsatt som homofil og fattig.Maskulinitet, homofobi og klasse er også tema i den britiske forfatteren Andrew McMillans kritikerroste romandebut Synd, oversatt av Bjørn Alex Herrman. Gjennom tre generasjoner tas leseren fra kullindustriens storhetstid, med lange dagers blodslit i gruvene, til en nåtid preget av arbeidsløshet og ensomhet, særlig blant menn. Med et poetisk og følsomt språk utforsker McMillan den moderne mannsrollen og hvordan fortiden spiller inn i nåtiden. Samtidig er boken en hyllest til arbeiderklassen og en oppfordring til refleksjon, forandring og aksept.Nå møter McMillan og Bech forfatter og journalist Kristofer Folkhammar til en samtale om fattigdom, klasse og giftige kjønnsroller. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer and therapist Glenn Bech sparked a larger debate about class issues in Denmark with his autobiographical novel The Fathership (forthcoming in Hazel Evans' translation) and his manifesto Jeg anerkænder ikke længere jeres autoritet (“I no longer recognize your authority”).The novel The Fathership depicts a brutal childhood characterized by violence, betrayals and toxic masculinity, but that also has a tenderness and love for the families and working class community portrayed. The novel was praised by the literary establishment, and the following year, Bech published Jeg anerkænder ikke længere jeres autoritet (“I no longer recognize your authority”), a furious manifesto about class struggle, the proletariat and the elite. In a self-scrutinizing, loud and emphatic prose, Bech rails against class contempt and the economic blind spots within the cultural middle class, showing the reader what it is like to be exposed, gay and poor.Masculinity, homophobia and class are central issues in British poet and author Andrew McMillan's critically acclaimed debut novel Pity. The book portrays three generations of men, spanning from the heyday of the coal industry, with long days of back-breaking labour in the mines, to a present characterized by unemployment and loneliness. In a sparse but urgent tone and with an eye for the raw and vulnerable, McMillan explores today's gender roles for men, and how the past affects the present. At the same time, the book is a tribute to the working class and an invitation to reflection, change and acceptance.McMillan and Bech are joined by writer and journalist Kristofer Folkhammar for a conversation about poverty, class and toxic gender roles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The conversation is in English, after a short introduction in Swedish. Våren 2024 kommer den brittiske författarens debutroman "Synd" i svensk översättning. Det är en ömsint bok om arbete och manlighet, om klass och sexualitet, om arv och att våga bli den man är. Andrew McMillan (född 1988) är en prisbelönt engelsk poet som nu romandebuterar med "Synd". Hans diktsamling "Physical" vann The Guardian First Book Award och har röstats fram som en av de senaste tjugofem årens tjugofem bästa diktsamlingar. Han undervisar i skrivande vid Manchester Metropolitan University och är medlem i The Royal Society of Literature. Ida Linde är tillsammans med Athena Farrokhzad programansvarig för litteraturen på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Hon är också verksam som översättare, dramatiker och författare. Hennes senaste bok är "När man sparkar på en hund" (Norstedts, 2023). Skådespelaren Robert Fux läser även ett stycke ur boken "Synd". I samarbete med Norstedts. Från 7 maj 2024 Jingel: Lucas Brar

Poet and author, Andrew McMillan, goes head to head with author and screenwriter Nathan Newman in a War of the Words! They chat to Joe Haddow about their new novels ('Pity' and 'How To Leave The House'), chosen family, working class towns, comedy from tragedy and, Margaret Thatcher (yes, really). Nathan and Andrew also recommend some authors and books they have been reading and enjoying recently. THE BOOK OFF'A Visit From The Goon Squad' by Jennifer EganVS'The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon' by Tom Spanbauer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we chat to Andrew McMillan about his novel, Pity. We discuss intersections of masculinity, sexuality and class and the way the body might hold these ideas within fiction and poetry. We think about the ways in which the form of the novel can hold multiple truths and stories, and how this links to post-industrial identities. We explore the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence, and consider what it would take to find new definitions of community. We chat about the need for more northern stories, and the idea that everyone's village, town or city is worthy of literature. We think about finding a new language to discuss the past, which honours its legacies and yet allows us to define ourselves on new terms, in order to move forwards. Andrew McMillan's debut collection physical was the only ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric Gregory Award (2016) and a Northern Writers' award (2014). It was shortlisted the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2016, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Polari First Book Prize. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2015. 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, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018; it was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2018, a Poetry Book of the Month in both The Observer and The Telegraph, a Poetry Book of the Year in The Sunday Times and won the inaugural Polari Prize. His third collection, pandemonium, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021, and 100 Queer Poems, the acclaimed anthology he edited with Mary Jean Chan, was published by Vintage in 2022. Physical has been translated into French, Galician and Norwegian editions, with double-editions of physical & playtime published in Slovak and German in 2022. He is Professor of Contemporary Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His debut novel, Pity, was published by Canongate in 2024. ​ References Pity by Andrew McMillan Pandemonium by Andrew McMillan Playtime by Andrew McMillan Physical by Andrew McMillan As always, visit Storysmith for 10% discount on Andrew's work.

ON WRITING by Stephen King, chosen by Kathryn Williams THE BITCH by Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman), chosen by Harriett Gilbert ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute, chosen by Andrew McMillanThe singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams loves books about the craft of writing and her choice of a good read is 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft', by the master of horror, Stephen King. The book gave her practical tools and advice which helped her to write her debut novel, The Ormering Tide. She also loves what we learn about King's life - from his flatulent childhood nanny to the devastating 1999 accident which almost ended his life.Harriett's choice this week is The Bitch by Colombian author Pilar Quintana, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. In a village on the Pacific coast of Colombia, between wild jungle and wild seas, a childless woman develops a complicated relationship with an orphaned puppy.And the poet and novelist Andrew McMillan chooses On the Beach by Nevil Shute. In Australia, a group of people try to come to terms with the end of the world. A nuclear war has wiped out all life in the northern hemisphere and the radiation is drifting steadily south. What would you do if you knew that you, and everyone you know, had only months to live?Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio

Mary Jean Chan reads from their new collection, Bright Fear, and discuss it with Andrew McMillan.Chan's debut, Fleche, won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2019. Bright Fear extends and develops that collection's themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, while remaining deeply attuned to moments of tenderness, beauty and grace.Andrew McMillan's most recent collection is pandemonium (Cape, 2021); a novel, Pity, is forthcoming in 2024. Together with Chan, he edited the landmark anthology 100 Queer Poems(Penguin). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Reytons' second album, What's Rock and Roll, debuted at No 1 in the charts - a rare feat for a band without a label. They discuss following it up with Ballad of a Bystander which features songs about pulling and politics.Phoebe Eclair-Powell on her Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Shed: Exploded View, which was inspired by the work of art Cornelia Parker created when she asked the British Army to blow up a garden shed, capturing the fragments in a frozen moment. The play centres on three couples whose conversations coincide, clash, and chime - the play opens at the Royal Exchange in Manchester this week.Poet Andrew McMillan on his debut novel, Pity, an exploration of masculinity and sexuality in a small South Yorkshire town.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

This week we're lifting, cleaning and jerking, squatting, pressing, pushing, sweating and gaining as we discuss the World's Worst Exercise with acclaimed queer poet and fitness fan Andrew McMillan. Andrew gives us an insight into why gyms feature so much in his writing, Ben talks about the world's strongest men and their various stones, and Barry goes to yoga with a Noah's Ark-worth of animals. Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @VanderLaugh @AMcMillanPoet Follow us on Instagram: @worstfoot  Join us on our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9buWKthgfx Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can donate to us on Patreon if you'd like to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

January is grim, there's no two ways about it. So here are two fantastic debuts to keep you tucked up indoors and out of whichever storm has just landed. First off  a chat with Lottie Hazell whose novel Piglet is published on 25.01.  An unrelenting story of compulsion and unfulfilled hunger, it majors on love, class and the lack at the centre of modern life. (It also has one of the most insane wedding scenes you'll read this year.) Follow the link below to order a copy.https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/9780857529565-sfThen, some time with Andrew McMillan to hear about his incredible debut novel Pity. Many of you will know Andrew from his poetry and Pity has a thread of gorgeous lyricism running through the heart of it. It is the story both of a community and of a couple Simon and Ryan who are in the early stages of their relationship. This is already a huge favourite at Field HQ, there is not a word out of place, it's written with a poet's economy & if you're a fan of Max Porter or Claire Keegan then this is one for you. It also has to be a very early contender for cover of the year.Piglet is published by Transworld Publishers on 25/01Pity is published by Canongate on 08/02@fieldzine /www.fieldzine.com

Helen Mort is the subject of the new Nothing But The Poem podcast. The SPL's regular podcast host, Sam Tongue, takes a deep dive into two of Helen Mort's poems which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group. Helen Mort is an award winning poet from Sheffield who's had 3 collections of poetry published. Her most recent collection, The Illustrated Woman (2022), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. The book's blurb at HelenMort.com reads: 'The Illustrated Woman is a tender and incisive collection about what it means to live in a female body - from the joys and struggles of new motherhood to the trauma of deepfakes. Andrew McMillan said of the collection: 'These are poems that will leave their indelible mark' Kate Kellaway, reviewing the book in the Guardian, wrote: The Illustrated Woman explores tattoos through history and, lucid though these poems are, you need to reread them often to acquire the deepest sense of what is being said. Mort presents tattoos variously: as painful and cherished keepsakes, exposure and concealment combined, flirtations with indelibility. The two poems discussed in this podcast – Ablation and The Tattooed Lady – can be found in No Map Could Show Them (Chatto) and The Illustrated Woman (Penguin).  

In March's episode, you'll hear from David Lee, Professor of Atmospheric Science, who will be discussing research into Net Zero aviation fuels and his recent report with the Royal Society, one of the world's leading scientific academies.   We also talk to Dr Stephen White, Reader in Cardiovascular Pathology.  We'll be discussing his new study that uncovered how smoking-triggered heart attacks happen and how they could potentially be prevented.   And finally, in March we celebrate World Poetry Day. We chat to acclaimed poet Andrew McMillan, Senior Lecturer in the University's Manchester Writing School, who has released three award-winning poetry collections.  Andrew talks through how beginners can get started in poetry, plus offers some useful hints and tips on writing a poem for the very first time. 

Proust as an agony uncle, Romeo and Juliet rewritten as 21st century Welsh teenagers in a new drama by Gary Owen, the Lesbian coming of age novel by Rita Mae Brown that inspired the lead character in Willy Russell's Educating Rita to change her name and a new book inspired by the historical figures who collaborated on the first English medical textbook on homosexuality. Tom Crewe's novel The New Life depicts the married lives and love triangles of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis and the impact of Oscar Wilde's trial on their attempts to publish their study of what they called "inversion". Naomi Paxton is joined by Tom Crewe, Gary Owen and New Generation Thinkers Julia Hartley and Diarmuid Hester. Romeo and Julie by Gary Owen runs at the National Theatre in London until April 1st and then moves to the Sherman Theatre Cardiff Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown was first published in 1973 and is available now as a paperback. On the Radio 3 website you can find an Essay from Diarmuid Hester about the writing of Dennis Cooper and a Sunday Feature about the radical life of suffrage pioneer Edith Craig. New Generation Thinker Julia Hartley has published a book looking at reading Proust and Dante. Tom Crewe's novel is called The New Life. Other conversations about love in the Free Thinking archives include Sappho, Jonathan Dollimore and a Punjabi version of Romeo and Juliet A quartet of researchers exploring dating, relationships and stories from the National Archives to London's gay bars. Free Thinking, Being Human: Love Stories And we've discussions of poetry, philosophy and novels about love with the likes of AL Kennedy and Andrew McMillan, Alain de Boton and Tahmima Anam And a discussion and article about Rude Valentines' cards https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/34JCKJtrl07f5kY3G9kFNpd/eight-incredibly-offensive-victorian-valentines Producer: Robyn Read

In this episode, we talk with Andrew McMillan, Senior Leader Emeritus @ Communidad Cristiana De Fe. Andrew shares his story of growing a church in Medellin, Colombia to over 8,000 people, and the process of handing off his Senior Pastor position to his successor.

Andrew McMillan je britský básnik a nedávno vyšli na Slovensku dve jeho zbierky básní v jednej knihe. Volá sa Telo/čas hier. Do slovenčiny ju prebásnil Michal Tallo, ktorý bol hosťom Mirky Ábelovej.

Seán Hewitt's debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (Cape), won the Laurel Prize in 2020; Max Porter praised it for its reverence to the natural world and ‘gorgeous wisdom', both of which are apparent in his new book, All Down Darkness Wide, a unique memoir of queer longing, trauma and depression.Hewitt talks to Andrew McMillan, whose debut collection, physical (Cape), was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award. His most recent book, pandemonium, was published in 2021.Find out about upcoming events: lrb.me/eventspod Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew McMillan is the author of Physical (published by Jonathan Cape), which won the Guardian First Book Award, the first time a collection of poetry won the prize. He was born in 1988 and grew up in a small village outside Barnsley in south Yorkshire, studying English at Lancaster and University College London before becoming a lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. He visited the SPL in August of 2016 while up in Edinburgh for the EIBF. During the course of the interview he talks about the one thing he tries to instill in his creative writing students, the criminal neglect of poet Thom Gunn, and why there are so few poems about going to the gym. Image: Urszula Sołtys Apologies: during the course of the podcast we say that Physical is published by Picador. It is in fact published by Jonathan Cape.

We talk to Dr. McMillan about the importance of staying student centered and how based on student voice, they have modified a period each day to create space for student choice. He shares about the impact that asking for input from students and staff can have on in building culture, and gives practical ways that they intentionally invest in staff culture at Chapman. Growing up in a home with parents who were educators, Dr. Andrew McMillan knew education was in his blood. Identifying education as his career path in third grade, Dr. McMillan is now an accomplished educator with seventeen years of experience including ten years of administrative experience in grades K-12. Known as a well-respected and collaborative team member, Dr. McMillan has a reputation for promoting fairness, integrity, and honesty, while maintaining a strong work ethic to motivate faculty, staff, and students to achieve their maximum potential within an ever-changing education environment. Dr. McMillan's core values are simple: love kids, be professional, and lead a school the community is proud of. Within those core values, Dr. McMillan fosters an environment at Chapman High School that supports the Profile of the SC Graduate, preparing students for life after high school in what he calls the 4 E's: serving their community as an Entrepreneur, Enrolled in a two or four year college or technical program, Enlisted in military service, or graduating as an Employable adult in a competitive, 21st century global economy. Named an Emerging Leader by the SCASCD, Dr. McMillan was also selected as the 2019 Outstanding Principal of the Year by the South Carolina Art Education Association. A firm believer in the importance of academics, arts, and athletics, Dr. McMillan currently serves as the South Carolina High School League Class AAA President. Additionally, under his leadership, Chapman High School was named a 2020 National Blue Ribbon School, recognized as an Exemplary High Performing School. Dr. McMillan and his wife, Dr. Shelly McMillan, have one son, Ellis, who is 3.

Africa Oyé, the UK's largest festival of music from the continent of Africa, celebrates its 30th anniversary in Liverpool's Sefton Park this month. Its Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney, discusses the festival's history and chooses three tracks of music that reflect Africa Oyé's growth and reputation. What is a queer poem? Poets Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan talk to Nick Ahad about how they explore that question in their new anthology, 100 Queer Poems - poems from across the twentieth century to the present day. It reflects the burgeoning range of recent queer poetry, and includes poets whose work is familiar, their queerness less so – Wilfred Owen, for instance. Plus, Maggie Shipstead. In the latest of our interviews with authors shortlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction, Nick talks to the author of Great Circle - the imagined life of a freedom-seeking woman pilot who embarks on a flight around the globe in 1950. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Photo: Africa Oyé, 2014. Credit: Mark McNulty Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Today's episode follows the long awaited publication of the Advanced Executive Fluency CEO report. To coincide with the report's launch I hosted a webcast with a number of executives and development professionals to get their initial reactions to the research. If you want to access the report, you can download it at: https://waldencroft.com/download/4121/If you'd like to hear more either about our Advanced Executive Fluency development programme for executive teams or our programme that helps your executive team develop the foundations capabilities of enterprise leadership, called Zenith, you can reach out to me below to have a conversation:https://waldencroft.com/contact/The webcast attendees who are featured in this episode are: Pauline Holland, Dorry McLaughlin, Sandra Blake, Heather Lee, Mark Adderley, Craig Jasienski, Andrew McMillan, Peter Allen, Sonja Blignaut

Leo Boix and Andrew McMillan read and talk to celebrate the publication of Boix's long-awaited debut collection in English, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto), a book described by Ilya Kaminsky as of ‘a wide tilt and scope; it sings the doors open.' Andrew McMillan's third collection pandemonium is just out from Jonathan Cape, following hot on the heels of the prizewinning physical and playtime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This podcast features Jason Ellis, Professor of Sleep Science at Northumbria University, and director of the Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research. Professor Jason Ellis introduces 'Encroach', an exclusive short story which dives into the experience of insomnia, written and read by award-winning poet Andrew McMillan. Sleep Stories is a three-part podcast series, inspired by sleep and the contemporary sleep crisis. It is co-commissioned by Durham Book Festival, Northumbria University and Politecnico di Milano (Italy).A transcript is available here: https://newwritingnorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Encroach-podcast-transcript.pdf This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 892459. The Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information the 'Sleep Stories' commission contains.

This week, Kim and Luca check in for a chit chat uncovering : Kim's flawed film watching habits, the brilliance of Andrew Mcmillan's poetry, Kim's awakening to  the one and only Bjork and much much more! Dive in x Support this podcast

It's been a beautiful couple of weeks filled with pubs, trips out of the county, books and in Sarah's case, a bout of cystitis which meant she actually had time to read them. Huzzah! Our guest this week is the winner of the Ted Hughes Award (AKA a huge deal), a person who is not only one of Britain's foremost poets but one of Becky's absolute idols, the phenomenal Hollie McNish. Her new collection 'Slug (And Other Things I've Been Told To Hate)' is a delightful, poignant and hilarious collection of prose, poetry and essays which Becky more than got into with her as well as (because what else) wanking and being told off for reading out a poem about anal sex. Oops.As well as that, we of course have tonnes of recommendations and chat for you including the brilliant Motherland, Mare of Easttown, Deborah Levy's 'The Cost of Living', Brit Bennett's 'The Vanishing Half', heading to the dump and just Billie Piper in general. Just a normal week then eh?As always, we'd love it if you could leave us a review (but only if it's nice - at least we're honest) and to hear from you at the following: Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcastTwitter: @calmdowndearpodWebsite: https://www.calmdowndearpodcast.comEmail: calmdowndearpodcast@gmail.comShownotes:Billie Piper on Changes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/billie-piper/id1465937091?i=1000512982808 The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/06/cost-living-deborah-levy-review-feminist-manifesto-divorced-simone-beauvoir The Vanish Half by Brit Bennett - https://britbennett.com/the-vanishing-half Motherland - https://www.netflix.com/title/81284515 Mare of Easttown - https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown A trip to the dump is one of my greatest pleasures in life - and I’m not alone - Richard Godwin - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/22/trip-to-the-dump-great-pleasures-in-life-not-alone Hollie McNish - Slug - https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/hollie-mcnish/slug/9780349726342/ Caroline Bird - https://www.carolinebird.co.uk/ Andrew McMillan - https://www.andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk/ Natalie Diaz - https://www.faber.co.uk/author/natalie-diaz/ Rachel Sirmanni - https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelSermanni/featured Wizard Hand - https://wizardhand.bandcamp.com/ Hollie McNish - Honestly - https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8RmlXhZT_/ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/13/kate-elizabeth-russell-my-dark-vanessa-interview Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fwRaM Excess of Everything - Grace Campbell and Scarlett Curtis podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/excess-of-everything/id1567742552 Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd_jlV61mA Entertain The Elk - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gjznzViwMols6dz89qLbg Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - https://www.douglasdstuart.com/books And keep your peepers peeled - we have a VERY exciting announcement coming soon... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second of our two podcasts celebrating World Poetry Day, Malika Booker chats with fellow poet and Manchester Writing School lecturer Andrew McMillan about his award-winning work. Andrew discusses his creative process and the meaning behind some of his most critically-acclaimed work, as well as reading exclusive pieces from his new anthology. Content warning: Andrew’s first recited poem ‘George’ deals with infant loss.

In the first of two podcasts celebrating World Poetry Day, Andrew McMillan chats with fellow poet and Manchester Writing School lecturer Malika Booker about her award-winning work. Malika reads her Forward Prize-winning poem 'The Little Miracles', discussing its creation and meaning, as well as how it feels to receive such a prestigious award for such a personal piece.

To support our work and listen to additional content from previous episodes, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_ (note: there is no Patreon episode for either of our Books of the Year 2020 episodes). In our latest, tenth episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Poetry Book of the Year 2020, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) catches up with Seán Hewitt to discuss Seán's book Tongues of Fire, the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hewitt's forthcoming memoir (due 2022), and a recap of the best books of 2020. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/10. Thanks for listening.LinksPatreonInstagramTwitterPodcastYourShelfEpisode NotesJay asks Seán about what book world he would live in, what his bookshelves look like, and who he'd invite to a literary dinner party. (from 0:01)Seán explains the origins of his book Tongues of Fire, his pamphlet Lantern, the scope of nature poetry, timeliness vs timelessness, the influence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and more. (from 9:20)Seán recaps his favourite books, albums and TV shows of 2020, recommends some titles for 2021, and hints at his forthcoming memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, due out 2022. (from 44:50)Seán Hewitt gives a special reading of Jay's favourite poem in Tongues of Fire, 'Adoratrion'. (from 1:01:03)The books and authors discussed in this episode include: Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, the works of Flann O'Brien, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Marlowe and William Blake, Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure, Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird, Alice Oswald's Dart, Freya Daly Sadgrove's Head Girl, Mark Doty's My Alexandria, Wayne Holloway-Smith's Love After Love, and the works of Ocean Vuong, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Karin Boye and J.M. Synge.Seán's 2020 highlights include Claudia Rankine's Just Us, Hilary Fannin's The Weight of Love, Rachel Long's My Darling From The Lions, Eavan Boland's The Historians, Robin Robertson's Grimoire, Jane Mead's World of Made and Unmade, and Caleb Femi's Poor. Aside from books, Seán's other 2020 highlights include the albums What's Your Pleasure? by Jessie Ware and Roísín Machine by Roísín Murphy, the TV shows Schitt's Creek and The Crown, and playing the Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.Seán's most anticipated releases of 2021 include Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, Jackie Kay's Bessie Smith, Andrew McMillan's Pandemonium, Kayo Chingonyi's A Blood Condition, and Jen Hadfield's The Stone Age.Seán's book Tongues of Fire is available now from Jonathan Cape. His academic volume J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism is available from Oxford University Press, 7 January 2021.Thanks for listening and tune in again very soon for our second Book of the Year episode, with Doireann Ní Ghríofa!

This week I take a look at The Men are Weeping in the Gym by Andrew McMillan, a poem that looks at the devastating effects that toxic masculinity and body image issues can have on whole generations of men. The poem draws from historical movements like muscular Christianity and leaves the reader feeling as though they've been punched in the gut.The show notes for today's episode, with full references can be found here: https://wordsthatburnpodcast.com/You can get in touch with me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordsthatburnpodcast/or by email : wordsthatburnpodcast@gmail.comThe music in this weeks episode is Gray Drops by Sergey Cheremisinov and is used under creative commons license. Enjoy his music here: : http://www.s-cheremisinov.com/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

al principio te pedí que me dejaras mirarte mirar porno creo que necesitaba verte existir al margen de mí absorta la mirada extraviado en el ritmo de alguien más para ver si lo nuestro podía funcionar sabía que al final terminarías por quererme demasiado creía que te hacían falta otros ídolos unos meses después lo vi al actor de la porno que vimos inconfundible el tatuaje en el cuello de esos pétalos me miró como si supiera que lo había visto desnudo su cuerpo un pozo insondable de cosas que jamás se me ocurriría pedirle a otro ser viviente que hiciera me dieron ganas de gritarle desconocido yo te vi la piel y sos hermoso estaba en la estación del tren más vulnerable de lo que yo recordaba y mucho más menudo me lo imaginé abrumado por el peso de las expectativas de otros hombres al llevarse a alguien a casa la cara que pondría al darse cuenta de lo tímido que era si no lo dirigían qué ordinaria la curva de los hombros sin iluminación me imaginé que pararía en la mitad de un beso que se echaría atrás y diría entre dientes esto no es lo que quería y no creo que funcione

KRDO's Digital Content Manager, Andrew McMillan, recently talked with the Mayor of Manitou Springs about pressure he and the City are under from protesters to re-open the iconic Manitou Incline. Listen Now!

Manchester-based poet Andrew McMillan joins Shaun Weston to discuss what it’s like to be a poet and writer in the digital age, and how modern life, mental health and social media influence our creativity. Andrew is author of the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award, and is a lecturer at The Manchester Writing School. Produced by Shaun Weston Media. Music by CyrilNikitin, Music Standard Licence.

For your very own copy of the G.O.O.D. plan, the get out of dodge plan, the ONLY way to get a copy is to email Andrew directly: thegoodplan@hotmail.ca Or...like, comment, and share this post, for a chance to win your very own FREE AUTOGRAPHED copy. If I have to mail it, just cover postage, and I'll send it right away once I pick a random winner. #covid19 #emergencyresponse #prepper --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-meincke/message

This podcast episode has the pleasure of meeting with Andrew McMillan – Former JLP Head of Customer Services at the John Lewis Partnership. We cover a huge amount of ground together including The Unique Business Model of John Lewis Partnership Whether the profit sharing model is broken Building a reputation for service excellence The quest for consistency in customer service and the value of customer complaints Giving freedom and autonomy to make decisions on the front line and Whether John Lewis really is in crisis right now – can they weather the storm and what advice would Andrew give to new Andrew started his career as a management trainee with the John Lewis Partnership at Brent Cross in North London. He quickly moved up through the management ranks and led a number of selling teams in different branches, culminating in heading a department in the flagship Oxford Street branch. From there he moved to the head office to take charge of the department stores’ Intelligence Team. They acted as an internal business consultancy, reporting on competitive strategy, product differentiation and value, catchment area demographics for new branches and customer experience. In 2000 Andrew was asked to lead on customer experience for the department store division. The role saw him develop JLP’s market-leading culture and attitude towards customer experience and sales with the 20,000 customer-facing Partners in 26 John Lewis shops across the UK. That customer-driven culture is something that has now become synonymous with the John Lewis brand. During his tenure John Lewis frequently won awards for customer experience from Which? Verdict and Retail Week and were regularly cited in the media as a leading customer oriented organisation. He was also responsible for the management and resolution of the group’s customer complaints. Andrew advises many other non-competing organisations on their customer experience strategy and has become a recognised as an expert in the field. Andrew McMillan’s Website: https://engagingservice.com/ Youtube Clip Mentioned of John Spedan Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chzISD-uQfY Employee Ownership Association: https://employeeownership.co.uk/ If you enjoyed the podcast please like and share! If you would like to be on the podcast and have great business insights to share get in touch at admin@workplaceevolution. Thank-you for listening! You can find out more about us at the following addresses: Website: www.workplaceevolution.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/workplaceevol Michael Costello's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcostellooccpsych1/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jointheevolution/message

Kate Lister started tweeting as Whores of Yore in 2015 to kick off a conversation about how we talk about sex. She has just published A Curious History of Sex which looks at everything from slang through the ages to medieval impotence tests, the relevance of oysters, bicycling and the tart card. Robin Mitchell's new book is called Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. In it she traces visual and literary representations of 3 black women: Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus; Ourika, a young Senegalese girl and Jeanne Duval, long-time lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Fern Riddell's books include The Victorian Guide to Sex and Sex: A Brief History. She hosts the podcast series #NotWhatYouThought and is a historian on the New Generation Thinker scheme which aims to put academic research on the radio. It's a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. You can find her talking about depictions of Eroticism in a Free Thinking conversation about The Piano and Love https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6t06b and exploring the life of the singer and suffragette Kitty Marion in a Sunday Feature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n2zcp An exhibition called With Love opens at the National Archives in Kew displaying letters spanning 500 years, which explore intimate expressions of love. You can hear archivist Vicky Iglikowski-Broad talking on a Free Thinking programme called Being Human: Love Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b6hk Anne McElvoy explores who and why we love with philosopher Laura Mucha, poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw, novelist Elanor Dymott and poet Andrew McMillan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002hk8 Producer: Luke Mulhall

In our fourth episode poets Ella Frears, Annie Hayer and Andrew McMillan join our host Eleanor Penny to discuss traditional tales of love and relationships. They re-imagine Eurydice, wife of Orpheus; the mythical half-seal half-women Selkie; and Jesus, who emerges as a dancefloor-parting queer icon. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World returns on Monday 16 September, bringing you another six episodes of poetry for our apocalyptic age. Each episode will feature brand new poetry from some of the best UK poets, including: Malika Booker, Andrew McMillan, Sabrina Mahfouz, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Jack Underwood and many more. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss en episode. For more information visit endoftheworldpodcast.com, or contact us on Twitter or Instagram @goodbyeworldpod

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. Andrew’s journey comes to an end, and he wheels his travel suitcase back to the New Writing North offices to chat to Claire Malcolm, and offer up a new poem about what he’s found. Recorded May 2019 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. Andrew’s journey brings him to Yorkshire with Rachael Allen, Kit Fan and Zaffar Kunial to consider what it takes to feel at home somewhere and whether the idea of a poetry of the north is really a signpost to a continuous journey rather than a final destination. Recorded on 12 November 2018 in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. Andrew joins poets Steve Ely, Amy McCauley and Clare Shaw to think about how places might become mythologised, how we might have to look backwards to find a language and understanding of our present condition and how even recent history can enter the fabric of the legends will tell each other. Recorded on 23rd October in Halifax, West Yorkshire. To find out more about the Rich Seams podcast, visit durhambookfestival.com.

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. Andrew continues his journey into the Rich Seams of Northern Poetry at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere with Cumbrian poets Emma McGorden, Kim Moore and Eileen Pun. Thinking about nature, nurture and the North as a backdrop for bigger experiences, Andrew searches for more answers in his quest, and hears new work from three of our most exciting contemporary poets. Recorded on Monday 15th October at in the library of the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria. To find out more about the Rich Seams podcast, visit durhambookfestival.com. Rich Seams was commissioned for Durham Book Festival. Durham Book Festival is a Durham County Council event, produced by New Writing North with support from Durham University and Arts Council England.

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. In a special, live edition of Rich Seams, Andrew begins his journey to dig down into the place of poetry in the North; he’s joined by North East based poets Jake Campbell, John Challis and Degna Stone to think about who’s voices poetry allows us to hear, who we still need to hear more from and whether there is a particularly northern idea of poetry. Recorded live at Durham Book Festival on Saturday 13th October at Durham Town Hall. To find out more about the Rich Seams podcast, visit durhambookfestival.com. Rich Seams was commissioned for Durham Book Festival. Durham Book Festival is a Durham County Council event, produced by New Writing North with support from Durham University and Arts Council England.

Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan takes a deeper look at the poetry of the North, as part of Rich Seams, a brand new podcast series celebrating the best of new and emerging poetry in the North of England. Our launch episode, in which we tear open the seams of poetry in the North to examine its legacy, its present condition and where it might be heading in the future. Andrew McMillan talks to Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North about the ideas behind Rich Seams and takes the measure of northern poetry with Professor Stephen Regan from Durham University and Alice Mullen from the Poetry Book Society. Recorded at the Old Cinema Launderette, Durham City as part of Durham Book Festival in October 2018.

Andrew McMillan's debut poetry collection, Physical, was the first ever poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award. It also won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award, the Costa Poetry Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2016, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Roehampton Prize and the Polari First Book Prize. His second collection, Playtime, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2018. A doctor of neuroscience by training and a former Royal Society fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Rachel Genn's debut novel The Cure was published by Corsair in 2011. Her second novel, What You Could Have Won, is due for publication in 2019 by Sheffield-based publisher And Other Stories. She teaches creative writing MA programmes at Sheffield and the Manchester Writing School.

On this week’s show, Robertson talks about his narrative poem The Long Take and McMillan explores adolescent rites of passage in Playtime

Poets Andrew McMillan and Kate Clanchy read from their work in St Endellion Church.

I am in Manchester chatting to Andrew McMillan about his new and second full collection of poetry, Playtime (Cape Poetry). In 117 episodes, this is the first time I've met up with a poet to specifically discuss the transition from debut collection to second book. I found Andrew’s reflections on confidence in his writing, audience expectation and reaction and placing growing demands on readers just fascinating. As with his debut Physical, Playtime deals with what it is to be a man in general, what it is to be a queer man specifically and how as boys, they or we learn about other male bodies, only this time around, more so, as it were. For more from Andrew: https://www.andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/AndrewPoetry For more from us: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/ https://twitter.com/Silent_Tongue https://www.facebook.com/LunarPoetryPodcasts Order our anthology, 'Why Poetry?': https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/ Download a full transcript of the episode here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/ep117-andrew-mcmillan-transcript.pdf Episode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: https://snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/

Italian film Sicilian Ghost Story is based on a real life kidnapping of the son of a Mafia supergrass The new production of Othello at London's Globe Theatre includes Mark Rylance as Iago HBO's Succession is a new series telling the story of a media empire led by an ageing patriarch which is thrown into confusion when he suffers a brain haemorrhage: which of his children is capable of taking over the responsibilities and pressures of running the company? Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-1933 at Tate Modern is an exhibition of many of the artists whose work was cast as degenerate by the Nazis. The term 'magic realism' was coined in 1925 to describe an artistic movement away from expressionism to a harsh, cold, unsettling veracity Andrew McMillan's collection of poems: playtime explores the different ways boys grow into their sexual selves and adult identities through rites of passage. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Linda Grant, Terence Blacker and Deborah Bull. The producer is Oliver Jones.

We celebrated the publication of Le corps des hommes, a bilingual edition of Andrew McMillan’s multi-award-winning début collection, physical, translated into French by acclaimed writer Philippe Besson. In association with Editions Grasset.

Malika Booker reads two poems at the Rich Seams Poetry Gala at Durham Book Festival 2017. Introduction by Andrew McMillan.

Each year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham University to invite an acclaimed poet to become the Festival Laureate. In 2017, we welcomed Andrew McMillan to the role. Here, Andrew reads his specially commissioned poem. Andrew McMillan’s debut collection physical was the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh Award and a Northern Writers’ Award.

Kim Moore reads two poems at the Rich Seams Poetry Gala at Durham Book Festival 2017. Introduction by Andrew McMillan.

"The more we reinforce the stereotypes of who writes and who reads, the more the notion of exclusivity is reinforced. It takes balls to gatecrash a party." Kit de Waal, published her first novel, My Name is Leon, in 2016 at the age of 55. She has already put her money where her mouth is - using part of the advance she received from Penguin to set up a creative writing scholarship in an attempt to improve working class representation in the arts. Kit knows that - as a writer from a working class background - the success of her debut novel is a rare occurrence. Born to a Caribbean bus driver father and an Irish mother (a cleaner, foster carer and auxiliary nurse), Kit grew up in Birmingham and left school at 15 with no qualifications. She became a secretary with the Crown Prosecution Service and went on to have a career in social services and criminal law. In this feature she explores an issue that is deeply personal to her. She looks back at her own life and trajectory, and takes the listener on a journey around the country to find out what the barriers really are to working class representation in British literature today. "There is a difference between working class stories and working class writers. Real equality is when working class writers can write about anything they like - an alien invasion, a nineteenth century courtesan, a medieval war. All we need is the space, the time to do it - oh yes, and some way to pay the bills!" Kit talks to a range of writers, agents and publishers about what the barriers are for writers from working class backgrounds, including Tim Lott, Andrew McMillan, Gena-mour Barrett, CEO of Penguin Random House UK Tom Weldon, Julia Bell, Julia Kingsford, Ben Gwalchmai, Nathan Connolly and Stephen Morrison-Burke (Birmingham poet laureate and the first recipient of the Kit de Waal scholarship). Produced by Mair Bosworth.

Following the release of Sonic Forces: Speed Battle, the newest mobile game from SEGA HARDlight, we are joined by Fran Shergold, community manager, and Andrew McMillan, producer of the game. Follow HARDlight at https://twitter.com/SEGAHARDlight Join the Sonic Forces: Speed Battle Discord server - discord.gg/sonicforcesspeedbattle

The American poet Mark Doty, Professor Sarah Churchwell and the young British poet Andrew McMillan join Matthew Sweet for a programme dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Readings performed by William Hope. Producer: Fiona McLean. Originally broadcast on Thu 8 Oct 2015.

Roger McGough and Brian Patten discuss the making of The Mersey Sound - the ground-breaking collection of poetry they created with the late Adrian Henri. Fifty years after the collection was published, and described by one critic as "a flash in the pan from a three-headed pantomime horse", they talk about the inspiration and the impact of The Mersey Sound. The painter, poet, musician, and teacher, Adrian Henri, described by John Peel as "one of the great non-singers of our time", and the third member of The Mersey Sound poets, is the subject of Tonight at Noon - a new season of exhibitions and events in Liverpool. His literary and artistic executor, and curator of the season, Catherine Marcangeli, discusses Henri's total art vision.Playwright and singer-songwriter Lizzie Nunnery performs an extract from her new work, Horny Handed Tons of Soil, which was inspired by both The Mersey Sound and Adrian Henri.Bryan Biggs, artistic director of Bluecoat's 300th anniversary programme, discusses the history of one of the UK's oldest arts centres and its role in supporting generations of contemporary artists such as Jeremy Deller, Yoko Ono and John Akomfrah.Prize-winning poet Andrew McMillan premieres his new poem in response to The Mersey Sound.Presenter : John Wilson Producer : Ekene Akalawu.

Andrew McMillan is the author of Physical (published by Jonathan Cape), which won the Guardian First Book Award, the first time a collection of poetry won the prize. He was born in 1988 and grew up in a small village outside Barnsley in south Yorkshire, studying English at Lancaster and University College London before becoming a lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. He visited the SPL in August of 2016 while up in Edinburgh for the EIBF. During the course of the interview he talks about the one thing he tries to instill in his creative writing students, the criminal neglect of poet Thom Gunn, and why there are so few poems about going to the gym. Image: Urszula Sołtys

In part 1 of TEOAT's two part Christmas special, Rob talks to Garth Greenwell about Pride, resisting mainstreaming, becoming visible and, of course, writing the "gay book of our times" What Belongs to You. Garth also talks about the purpose of art and literature and Rob tries to keep up. The conversation took place the day after Garth's talk with Andrew McMillan as part of the Manchester Literature Festival.

June 2016. Paul McMenemy talks to Cat Lucas and Robert Sharp from English PEN about writers at risk. Includes readings of translations of poetry by Ashraf Fayadh and Liu Xia, as well as Andrew McMillan’s poem in response to Ashraf’s work, recorded at the Modern Literature Festival. (00:00:58) - Cat Lucas reads, 'A space in the void' by Ashraf Fayadh (trans. Jonathon Wright) (00:20:54) - Andrew McMillan reads, 'Week of living blasphemously' (00:42:53) - Paul McMenemy reads, 'June 2nd 1989' by Liu Xia (trans. Ming Di and Jennifer Stern) www.englishpen.org Writers in translation: http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/ PEN at the Ledbury Festival: https://www.englishpen.org/campaigns/english-pen-at-the-ledbury-poetry-festival-2016/ Modern Literature Festival videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/fowlerpoetry Poetry by Ashraf Fayadh in English: https://arablit.org/?s=Ashraf+Fayadh&x=0&y=0 Poetry by Liu Xia in English: https://pen.org/poetry/five-poems-liu-xia

In this episode, Rob talks to the winner of the last ever Guardian First Book Award, Andrew McMillan, on "modern male anxieties" as the Guardian puts it, working out in gyms, trying to write like Jon McGregor, Creative Writing MAs (again), Horror as a gateway drug (again), and what it's like growing up Gay in Barnsley. NOTE: This was recorded before the terrible homophobic nightclub shooting in Orlando, which is why we don't talk about it in the interview and why I don't mention it in the intro.

The Vintage Podcast is ringing the changes; new music, new format - same great authors and books. Join Alex Clark and Will Rycroft as they look back at 2015 and discuss big books, little books and everything in between. What were their favourites, their podcast highlights and what do they have planned for the future? We'd love to know what you think so do please leave a comment and don't forget to follow us so you're the first to catch our next podcast in the new year.Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We join judges, readers, the editor Robin Robertson and the winner of the 2015 Guardian first book award, Andrew McMillan

The American poet Mark Doty, Professor Sarah Churchwell and the young British poet Andrew McMillan join Matthew Sweet for a programme on National Poetry Day dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Readings will be performed by William Hope.

August skys may have turned to rain but this month's podcast takes you back to a glorious summer weekend and the Vintage Live event at the Wilderness Festival. Alex Clark hosts authors Nicci Cloke, Anna Whitwham, Samantha Harvey, Evie Wyld, Samantha Ellis, Kirsty Logan, Andrew McMillan and Deborah Moggach to discuss getting published, what fiction is for and adapting work for the big screen. Sit back, relax, and imagine yourself in the comforting warmth of our marquee in Oxfordshire. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterYou can find out more about the author's books below. Anna Whitwham: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/009958445x/anna-whitwham/boxer-handsome/ Nicci Cloke: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099593653/nicci-cloke/lay-me-down/ Samantha Harvey: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099597667/samantha-harvey/dear-thief/ Evie Wyld: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/022409971x/evie-wyld-and-joe-sumner/everything-is-teeth/ Samantha Ellis: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099575566/samantha-ellis/how-to-be-a-heroine-or-what-i-ve-learned-from-reading-too-much/ Kirsty Logan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846559162/kirsty-logan/the-gracekeepers/ Andrew McMillan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224102133/andrew-mcmillan/physical/ Deborah Moggach: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1784740470/deborah-moggach/something-to-hide/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Advances in the management of Ph+ ALL (Prof Robin Foa), Molecular basis and treatment of FIP1L1-PDGFRA associated hypereosinophilia (Dr Jan Cools), Thrombopoietin agonists in clinical practice (Prof Adrian Newland), A challenging case of relapsed lymphoma (Dr Andrew McMillan), The role of allogeneic ransplantation in the management of AML and ALL (Prof Jan Cornellissen ), Extracorporeal photapharesis in the management of chronic GVHD (Prof Hildegaard Grenix), Investigation and management of a patient with possible aplastic anaemia (Dr Jakob Passweg )