A BOOKS OF 2021 PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTUREAfter two prizewinning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillans 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 breathspace and lowercase 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.

Binding: Paperback;96 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: DCF; Weight: 234 g; Dimensions: 131 x 196 x 14

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