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14th March 2024

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781405548397

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A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug


Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest‘ SARAH MILLICAN

Hollie McNish’s words always sweep me away‘ GIOVANNA FLETCHER

This book is written out of both hate and love for the world


As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others?

We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

Never have we needed her moreSTYLIST

I’ve loved her work for years‘ JO BRAND

She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love‘ KAE TEMPEST

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

Reviews

Matt Haig
One of the best poets we have . . . I love Hollie McNish
DLuxe
One of the UK's top performance poets
Sarah Millican
funny, so smart and refreshingly honest
Sara Pascoe
energising, fearless and joyful
Musa Okwonga
beautifully, quietly heartbreaking . . . this book is so good
Stylist
Poems to feed your soul: 480 pages of funny, wise and thought-provoking reflections on how to embrace ourselves and our lives, just as we are
Manx Independent
Inimitable . . . bold, direct, down-to-earth writing that fearlessly questions all the warped and wily ways we have been taught to hate
Kae Tempest
She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love
Jo Brand
I've loved her work for years
Liz Berry
Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight
Nihal Arthanayake
She succeeded in me seeing the world in an entirely different way . . . Raw, Visceral
Giovanna Fletcher
Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away. They're nostalgia mixed with the realisation of what we've been fed. Reminiscence leading to discoveries before the arrival of acceptance, healing and contentment. The perfect book about life to make you question what you think is true. I wish I could've read it sooner!