Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish describes herself as a writer who loves writing. She is also a poet, performer, educator, collaborator and the first poet to record an album at Abbey Road studios.She has garnered over ten million YouTube views for her online poetry performances and her fans range from Pink to Tim Minchon. Benjamin Zephaniah said ‘I can’t take my ears off her’, Kae Tempest has described her poetry as ‘welcoming, galvanising and beautiful’. Hollie has published four collections of poetry and one ‘poetic memoir’, Nobody Told Me (2016) for which she won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. She runs Page to Performance, delivering workshops in spoken word and poetry slams and is part of the collective Point Blank Poets.Hollie’s sixth book – another cross-genre collection of poetry, memoir and short stories – is called Slug, and other things I've been told to hate. It will be published in May 2021.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-world-as-it-should-be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Om Podcasten

The World As It Should Be is a new podcast from the team who bring you the Primadonna festival – and its prize.Primadonna describes its weekend festival as 'the world as it should be, for one weekend’.But what if it could last for longer than a weekend? In this podcast series, we’ll be asking brilliant people – some of whom you’ll know, some of whom you might be meeting for the first time – how they’d create their world, as it should be.They’ve all got one thing in common: they’re doing something amazing with their work: they’re breaking down barriers, and making people think.Have a listen to find out more.Theme tune by Deb Googe.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-world-as-it-should-be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.