Lobster - by Hollie McNish

Book Synopsis

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug
'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN

'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA FLETCHER

This book is written out of both hate and love for the world
As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others?

We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

'Never have we needed her more' STYLIST

'I've loved her work for years' JO BRAND

'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPEST

From the Back Cover

As people, we are capable of both love and hate, amazement and disgust, fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly nudging us to hate both ourselves and others?

In this brand-new collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable bled of poetry and prose to question all the warped and wily way we have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

'This book is so good . . . quietly heartbreaking, so full of love' Musa Okwonga
'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' Sarah Millican
'I love Hollie McNish!' Matt Haig
'I've loved her work for years' Jo Brand
'Earthy, angry and funny' Scotsman
'Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight' Liz Berry
'Poems to feed your soul' Stylist

Review Quotes

Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away. They're nostalgia mixed with the realisation of what we've been fed. Reminiscence leading to discoveries before the arrival of acceptance, healing and contentment. The perfect book about life to make you question what you think is true. I wish I could've read it sooner!--Giovanna Fletcher

Inimitable . . . bold, direct, down-to-earth writing that fearlessly questions all the warped and wily ways we have been taught to hate--Manx Independent

beautifully, quietly heartbreaking . . . this book is so good--Musa Okwonga

energising, fearless and joyful--Sara Pascoe

funny, so smart and refreshingly honest--Sarah Millican

Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight--Liz Berry

I've loved her work for years--Jo Brand

One of the best poets we have . . . I love Hollie McNish--Matt Haig

One of the UK's top performance poets--DLuxe

Poems to feed your soul: 480 pages of funny, wise and thought-provoking reflections on how to embrace ourselves and our lives, just as we are--Stylist

She succeeded in me seeing the world in an entirely different way . . . Raw, Visceral--Nihal Arthanayake

She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love--Kae Tempest

About the Author

Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers, Slug and Lobster, the Ted Hughes Award-winning Nobody Told Me and poetry collections Plum, Cherry Pie and Papers. She has also adapted Greek tragedy Antigone, and co-wrote Offside, a play, with fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz. She loves writing.