Hollie McNish, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry, has thrilled
and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her
compelling and powerful performances. Plum, her debut for Picador
Poetry, is a wise, sometimes rude and piercingly candid account of her
memories from childhood to attempted adulthood.
This is a book
about growing up, about 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, stumbling, falling, changing and discovering new
selves to add to our own messy store.
It will leave the reader in no doubt as to why McNish is considered one of the most important poets of the new generation.
Plum - Hollie McNish
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