Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish is a published UK poet based between London, Cambridge and Glasgow. She has two poetry collections – Cherry Pie and Papers – and an album, Versus, which made her the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London.

In February 2016, Little Brown published her memoir of poetry and parenthood, Nobody Told Me. Taken from Hollie's journals while pregnant and in the early years of raising her daughter, through the passages and poems she wrote, she explores raising a child in modern Britain, of trying to become a parent in modern Britain, of sex, commercialism, feeding, gender and of finding secret places to scream once in a while. It has sold incredibly well, garnered great reviews, has been translated into 3 languages to date and won the Ted Hughes Prize for Poetry 2016.

In June 2017, Picador published her third poetry collection, Plum, to critical acclaim. Plum was named in the Rough Trade Book of the Year list.

"Plum is certainly brave...The poems are refreshingly funny, angry, contemplative and personal. A sense of wanting the world to be a better place shines out." - The Telegraph

"Her rhymes have a driving quality, urgent words pinning down fleeting feelings" - Observer

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