Hollie McNish | |
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 Portrait of Hollie McNish | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) Reading, Berkshire, England |
| Genres | Poetry, Memoir, Spoken word, Non-Fiction |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Yup! |
| Website | holliepoetry |
Hollie McNish is a poet and author[1] based between Cambridge and Glasgow.[2][3] She has published four collections of poetry: Papers (2012), Cherry Pie (2015), Why I Ride (2015), Plum (2017) and one poetic memoir on politics and parenthood, Nobody Told Me (2016), of which the Scotsman suggested “The world needs this book...and so does every new parent” and for which she won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.[4][5] The latter has been translated into German, French and Spanish. McNish's sixth publication - a second cross-genre collection of poetry, memoir and short stories - Slug, and other things I've been told to hate, was published in May 2021 with Hachette[6] with a further collection Lobster, due to come out in 2024, also with Hachette. In 2016, she co-wrote a play with fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz, Offside, relating the history of British women in football. This was published as a book in 2017.[7][8]
McNish has also released an album of poetry and music, Versus (2014), which made her the first poet to record an album at Abbey Road Studios, London.[2]
As well as her own publications, McNish has written and performed poems for various campaigns and organisations, including The Economist Education Foundation, Durex's campaign for orgasm equality, and The Eve Appeal.
- ^ Presenter: James Naughtie (15 June 2017). "Meet the Author: Hollie McNish". Meet the Author. BBC. BBC News Channel. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ a b Bromwich, Kathryn (29 March 2015). "Hollie Poetry: woman versus world – one poem at a time". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ O'Keeffe, Alice (16 June 2017). "Hollie McNish: the politics and poetry of boyfriends, babies and breastfeeding". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Ted Hughes Award". poetrysociety.org.uk. Poetry Society. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "Hollie McNish wins the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry". poetrysociety.org.uk. Poetry Society. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "Fleet signs 'searing' collection from McNish | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ Love, Catherine (20 March 2017). "Offside: the shocking moment female footballers were banned for 50 years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Offside". Futures Theatre. Retrieved 13 June 2018.