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Hollie McNish, Great British Poet

Earlier this year one of Hollie McNish’s Poems took Youtube by storm. GBC spoke to Hollie McNish about poetry, motherhood and why stereotypes and labels p*** her off!

Hollie, it seems you were relatively unknown until recently, now you’re working with The Economist and appearing on Women’s Hour and Channel 4. How hard have you had to work to become an ‘overnight sensation’ or did you really appear like Venus from her shell?

Wow, I’ve never been called an ‘overnight sensation’ before so thanks! But yeah, it’s been slightly nuts since I had a video go viral on youtube, from 10,000 to a million views in a few days thanks to a website called ‘Upworthy’ mainly. But Woman’s Hour, Channel 4 and The Economist all happened before that, it’s just that people who didn’t know any of my poetry are seeing it now.

I went on Woman’s Hour a couple of years ago and that helped me so so much – I didn’t realize how many people listened to that programme. And the poem I did with Kate Tempest on Channel 4 was filmed ages ago. They had a lot of issues putting it up – I think because there were naked people in it who weren’t 25 year old models! It was all a bit appalling how much discussion they had about that video before it went online.

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# Hollie Mcnish

hollie mcnish also known as Hollie Poetry, (born 1983), is a British poet, author and spoken word artist. She lives near Cambridge in the UK.McNish has published five books of poetry: Papers (2012), Cherry Pie (2015), Why I Ride (2015), Nobody Told Me (2016), and Plum (2017). Nobody Told Me won the 2016 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

TONTS. on the road with Hollie McNish

Welcome to another episode of TONTS. on the road. Audio grabs from Claire's tour of the UK last year. This one is from her London show with the spoken word poet Hollie Mcnish. Hollie is an award-winning poet, writer and performer. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Slug (and other things…

14/07/2024

Frogs who love rain, the poem that came from a magpie, the poetry of the peleton, and the everyday language of dating apps. Ian McMillan's guests this week (Hollie McNish, Testament, Ira Lightman and Liz Berry) bring all of this to the studio table and much, much more. Hollie McNish's latest book i…

Salena Godden and Hollie McNish

We're so excited to bring you this episode of Book Off, featuring two of our favourite poets and humans - Salena Godden and Hollie McNish. We've been wanting to bring these two together for a

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FEBRUARY 2025

Thursday 13th Feb (hosting Tree Ferguson’s complete launch)
BATH
Toppings
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Sunday Ordinal February (SOLD OUT)
BRIGHTON
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Tuesday 18th Feb – uninvolved gig promotion parents / carers copy babies (SOLD OUT)
LEEDS
Storytelling Festival
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Tuesday 25th February
LAUSANNE
Books Books Books Bookshop
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MARCH 2025

Thursday 6th Stride (SOLD Send away – Think up date packed in on trafficking, see below!)
BRISTOL
Stick up George’s
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catch on Laurie Bolger

Thursday 13th Parade (SOLD OUT)
ROTHERHAM
Linguist and Co
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Wednesday 19th March
SWANSEA
Taliesin Arts Centre
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with Laurie Bolger

Thursday Ordinal March (LOW TICKET WARNING)
EXETER
Contempt Exchange
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resume Laurie Bolger

Friday 21st Strut (SOLD OUT)