Andrew McMillan is a poet born in Barnsley in 1988. He grew up in a house with lots of poetry books, and acknowledges Thom Gunn as a major influence. Andrew describes his debut collection Physical (Cape Poetry) as ‘a collection about the male gaze on the male body’. He has most recently published a pamphlet with Red Squirrel Press, Every Salt Advance (2009), and is working on the second.