Birth name Hollie McNish Name Hollie Poetry Years active 2009–present Role Poet | Labels Yup! Record label Yup! Website holliepoetry.com | |
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Genres Poetry, Poetry slam, Spoken word Similar People Kate Tempest, Kwame Kwaten, Benjamin Zephaniah, George the Poet, John Hegley Profiles | ||
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Hollie McNish (also known as Hollie Poetry) is a British poet, author and spoken word artist.
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- Embarrassed poem by hollie mcnish directed by dypka holliepoetry
- Hollie mcnish mathematics spoken word the works rte one
- Early life
- 2009present
- References
Hollie mcnish mathematics spoken word the works rte one
Early life
Born in Reading to Glaswegian parents, McNish grew up in a village outside the town, attending the local comprehensive school. She studied French and German at King's College, Cambridge, before studying part-time for a master's degree in international development and economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2009–present
McNish won the UK Slam Poetry Competition in 2009 and went on to finish 3rd in the global Slam Du Monde contest. A collection of her poems, Papers, was published by Greenwich Exchange in 2012.
A number of McNish's YouTube videos have gone viral and her account currently has over 4.1 million views. Her first album, Versus, was released in September 2014 under the pseudonym Hollie Poetry; she was the first poet to record an album at Abbey Road Studios. McNish has collaborated with Kate Tempest and George the Poet and they have appeared on stage with her during her 2015 tour. McNish received major national airplay on the BBC, first in January 2015 on Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 show and then in May 2015 on BBC Radio 1Xtra as part of a spoken word event.
In February 2016, McNish talked to Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her poetic memoir Nobody Told Me. Later that year, Woman's Hour broadcast a short series entitled 'Becoming a Mother: A Hot Cup of Tea with Hollie McNish'.
On 29 March 2017 it was announced that Nobody Told Me had won the 2016 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. In an interview with McNish for The Guardian in June 2017, Alice O'Keeffe described Nobody Told Me as,
"a scrappy, chaotic, heartfelt portrait of new motherhood, from the moment McNish found out she was pregnant (in the toilets at King’s Cross station on her way to Glastonbury) to her daughter turning three. It includes diary entries, poems jotted in the dead of night and during nap-times, breathless musings on breastfeeding, sex after giving birth, and the state of the world."
In June 2017, Picador will publish McNish's latest poetry collection, Plum. She discussed the book with James Naughtie on the BBC News Channel's Meet the Author.
