EAN: 9781787333192

PANDEMONIUM - ANDREW MCMILLAN KARTONIERT (TB)

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN  FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*After two
prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body 
McMillan's third book marks a shift: both inward  into the difficult world of mental health 
and outwards into the natural and political world.Keeping his trademark breath-space and
lower-case lines  but more formally experimental  incorporating sequences and sonnets  the
poems in pandemonium explore the fragility and depth of the human mind - in its panic and its
troubled retreat - and map this turmoil onto the chaos and abundance of the garden. Depression
is mirrored in the invasive  seemingly untreatable knotweed that slowly suffocates the garden 
while the sky conspires in its sudden  terrifying clarity  'as though the root of the world
were ripped clean off'.McMillan has been celebrated for his unflinchingly frank depictions of
the body and sexual love  but these new poems are raw dispatches from a mind in freefall  a
body in trouble. Addressing a period of acute depression  they are less about physical union
and completeness and more about fracture and distance: tender  savagely moving poems which
stare  unblinkingly  into the sudden havoc and hurt of this world  searching for - and finally
finding - some redemption.

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