Taliesin, Swansea
'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' Sarah Millican
Hollie McNish is a poet whose live readings are not to be missed. After a run of sold out shows up and down the UK, she is back with the paperback tour of Lobster and Other Things I'm Learning to Love. A Sunday Times bestselling book, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry as she reads from this collection plus a selection of firm favourites from Slug and Nobody Told Me.
Adult content warning 14+
Book signing after the gig & support act to be announced.
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 is Lobster, and Other Things I'm Learning to Love. She loves writing.
'Her writing is sublime' Ellie Taylor
'like Pam Ayres on acid' Lemn Sissay
Mae Hollie McNish yn fardd na ddylech chi golli ei darlleniadau byw. Ar ôl gwerthu pob tocyn ar gyfer cyfres o sioeau ledled y DU, mae hi'n ôl gyda'r daith clawr papur o Lobster and Other Things I'm Learning to Love, llyfr a oedd ar restr The Sunday Times o'r llyfrau sy'n gwerthu orau. Gallwch ddisgwyl iaith gref a chynnwys i oedolion, wedi'u cyflwyno ar ffurf barddoniaeth grefftus iawn wrth iddi ddarllen o'r casgliad hwn a detholiad o ffefrynnau o Slug a Nobody Told Me.
Rhybudd - cynnwys yn addas i bobl 14 oed a hŷn
Bydd yr awdur yn llofnodi llyfrau ar ôl y perfformiad. Manylion y perfformiwr arall i'w cyhoeddi.
Yr Awdur
Mae Hollie McNish yn fardd ac yn awdur sy'n treulio ei hamser rhwng Glasgow a Chaergrawnt. Hi oedd y bardd cyntaf i recordio yn Stiwdios Abbey Road, Llundain, ac enillodd Wobr Ted Hughes am Waith Newydd ym maes Barddoniaeth am ei chofiant barddonol am fagu plentyn - Nobody Told Me. Barn The Scotsman am y llyfr hwn: 'The World Needs this Book' Mae hi wedi cyhoeddi pedwar casgliad arall o farddoniaeth - Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum a Slug, a oedd yn un o werthwyr gorau The Sunday Times a chafodd ei gyfieithu i Ffrangeg dan yr enw Je souhaite seulement que tu fasses quelque chose de toi. Ei llyfr newydd yw Lobster and Other Things I'm Learning to Love. Mae hi wrth ei bodd yn ysgrifennu.
Taliesin, Swansea University , Singleton Campus, Swansea SA2 8PZ