After a run of sold out shows Hollie McNish is back with a brand new book, Lobster and other things I'm learning to love. A Sunday Times bestselling writer whose live readings are not to be missed, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry.
In Lobster, Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and 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.
Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the event.
Holly will be supported on the night by award winning scottish poet Michael Pedersen
About the Author
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 and translated into French under the title Je souhaite seulement que tu fasses quelque chose de toi. Her new book, Lobster, and other things I'm learning to love is out in March 2024. She loves writing.
This performance forms part of an integrated programming theme that Birnam Arts are exploring in 2024 around Mothering/Parenting.
Other work that engages with this theme includes ‘PLAY’ exhibition and the associated workshops by Esther Kent, ‘Family Portrait’ immersive film installation by Barrowland Ballet and ‘Beyond Expectations’ exhibition and the associated workshops and events by Jo Foo.