Hugh McMillan

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.

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 2020 he was chosen as one of 4 ‘Poetry Champions’ for Scotland, to seek out and commission new work.

He also edits for the magazine ‘Poets Republic’ and Drunk Muse Press. Currently he is collaborating with Scottish and New York poets and musicians on a project called ‘Sandstone Steps’.