Description
Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her compelling and powerful performances. This is a book about growing up, about guilt, flesh, fruit, friendships, work and play - and the urgent need to find a voice for the poems that will somehow do the whole glorious riot of it justice.
Throughout Plum, McNish allows her recent poems to be interrupted by earlier writing from her younger selves – voices that speak out from the past with disarming and often very funny results. Plum is a celebration, a salute to a life in which we are always growing, tripping, changing and discovering new selves to add to our own messy stores.
Endorsements
"She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown too used to and lets us see the world with fresh eyes." — Kate Tempest
"Her rhymes have a driving quality, urgent words pinning down fleeting feelings." — Observer