The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the 11th annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture which will be given by the poet Andrew McMillan.

“An accumulation of the possible”: on anthologising, reading and queer legacies and networks” – Tuesday 10 October | 18:00 – 20:00 | Avenue Campus and Online

This special event is a chance to hear one of the most important voices in modern poetry, and a pioneer for queer writing, Andrew McMillan. Following the lecture, in person attendees are invited to join a short book signing by Andrew, at which October Books will have copies of Andrew’s 100 Queer Poems Anthology for sale.

This event is co-organised by the English department and the Winchester Poetry Festival and will be introduced by Professor Will May.

Tickets can be reserved via Eventbrite: F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture Tickets, Tue 10 Oct 2023 at 18:00 | Eventbrite.

About the speaker:

Andrew McMillan is Professor of Contemporary Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His debut poetic collection physical won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2015, and was voted a top poetry book of the last 25 years by Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize, and was followed by pandemonium in 2021. 100 Queer Poems, the acclaimed anthology he edited with Mary Jean Chan, was published by Vintage in 2022.