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.