Hollie McNish | Lobster: An Evening of Poetry
Sat 23 Nov 2024 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
After a run of sold out shows across the UK, bestselling poet Hollie McNish returns with a brand-new book, Lobster and other things I’m learning to love. Her live readings are unmissable: expect strong language and adult content gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry. Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags, newborns, clocks, cocks and volvos, shining a ridiculous and beautifully poetic lens upon all those things we have been taught to hate, and which we might just learn to love again.
In conversation with Jo Browning Wroe
Venue: Cambridge Union & Livestream
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets available soon.
Author Biography
Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Slug, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her new book, Lobster, and other things I’m learning to love is out now. She loves writing.
Chair
Chair biography
Jo Browning Wroe grew up in a crematorium in Birmingham. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and teaches at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education on their Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing. Her debut novel, A Terrible Kindness, was a Sunday Times bestseller shortlisted for the Bridport Peggy Chapman-Andrews award, and longlisted for the Prix du Roman Fnac. She has two adult daughters and lives with her husband in Cambridge.
