Plum

Hollie McNish 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. Praise for Hollie McNish ‘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