A blistering companion piece to the celebrated Slug, McNish's bravura collection confronts the absurd emphasis on hate in modern society and why we are taught to be embarrassed by pleasure.
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Poetry Award 2024
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug.
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 constantly to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast, amongst other activities; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.
In this brand-new 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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349726649
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 612 g
Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 42 mm
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! - Giovanna Fletcher
funny, so smart and refreshingly honest - Sarah Millican
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 - Stylist
I've loved her work for years - Jo Brand
One of the best poets we have . . . I love Hollie McNish - Matt Haig
beautifully, quietly heartbreaking . . . this book is so good - Musa Okwonga
She succeeded in me seeing the world in an entirely different way . . . Raw, Visceral - Nihal Arthanayake
energising, fearless and joyful - Sara Pascoe
She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love - Kae Tempest
Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight - Liz Berry
One of the UK's top performance poets - DLuxe
Inimitable . . . bold, direct, down-to-earth writing that fearlessly questions all the warped and wily ways we have been taught to hate - Manx Independent
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