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Interview with Hollie McNish: lifting the lid on off-limit subjects
Kyra Hanson interviews Hollie McNish who won the prestigious Arts Foundation prize for her spoken word poetry and has just published a new collection of verse Nobody Told Me - Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
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Last year English poet Hollie McNish, 32, won the prestigious Arts Foundation prize for her spoken word poetry. Shortly after, she was named one of OK! Magazine’s top 12 inspirational women to follow on Twitter.
She’s just at home writing about breasts in the Guardian as she is writing about the sexism of Beyonce’s lyrics in The Mirror.
I meet her in a back room of the Royal Albert Hall, where she hadtime to chat between reading at the Hammer and Tongue National Slam finals and putting her six-year-old daughter to bed.
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