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Plum

By: Hollie McNish
Narrated by: Hollie McNish
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About this listen

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 listener in no doubt as to why McNish is considered one of the most important poets of the new generation.

©2017 Hollie McNish (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio European Poetry World Literature Funny

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funny, reletable and witty. Holly is just amazing, her voice is beautiful and it's SUCH an easy listen.

funny, reletable and witty. Holly is just amazing.

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Such a talented writer. This book makes you feel normal and restores your faith in people

Amazing

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I thoroughly enjoyed this reading! Thank you Hollie for your lifelong honesty, bravery and wisdom.

Simply gorgeous

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I listen to this over and over again and my three year old daughter is proud of her vulva, thanks Hollie!

A lesson in talking to your daughter

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I adore Hollie's work so much. She is such an accomplished poet and social commentator. She makes writing such heart-punching poems sound easy, and her work is so very relatable. She encourages me to stay bold and to remember to keep raising my daughters that way.
Read by the author herself, the audio production was fantastic. Wonderfully immersive.

Beautiful in every way

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