Hugh McMillan is a poet
from Penpont in South West Scotland. His work has been published widely in
Scotland and beyond, and he has won various prizes, most recently the Callum
Macdonald Memorial Award in 2017 for Sheep Penned, published
by Roncadora; he won the same award in 2009 for Postcards from the
Hedge. He has been a winner in the Smith/Doorstop Prize and the
Cardiff International Poetry Competition, and has also been shortlisted for the
Michael Marks Poetry Award and the Basil Bunting Award. Not Actually Being
in Dumfries: New and Selected poems was published by Luath Press in
2015 as were in 2018 the poetry collections Heliopolis,
and The Conversation of Sheep, the latter in
collaboration with a local shepherd. He has featured in many anthologies, and
three times in the Scottish Poetry Library’s online selection Best
Scottish Poems of the year. His poems have also been chosen
three times to feature on National Poetry Day postcards, the latest in 2016. In
2017 he was writer in residence at the Harvard Summer School. In 2019 his
collaboration Elspeth Buchan an the Blash o God featured at the Wigtown
Book Festival and the Scottish Poetry Library. He currently curates
#plagueopoems a daily series of poems filmed from lockdown. https://pestilencepoems.blogspot.com/
In 2020 he was chosen as one of 4 ‘Poetry Champions’ for Scotland, to seek oyt
and commission new work. His website is at https://www.hughmcmillanwriter.co.uk/