Lobster: And Other Things I'm Learning to Love - Paperback

by Hollie McNish (Author)

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

'Bold, hilarious and tender' SALENA GODDEN

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

Back Jacket

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

Author Biography

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.