SLUG: And Other Things I've Been Told to Hate

'Award-winning poet Hollie McNish holds up honest, funny and refreshing takes on the everydayness of our lives - the social demands, sex and orgasms, our bodies, judgement from friends and ourselves.' - Francesca Brown. From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, effortlessly navigating menstruation, masturbation, gender and race inequalities and normalising these normal topics, Hollie's writing is driving, funny and hopeful poetry and prose in a fascinating mix about the human condition. Short stories, essays, sometimes just rambling, we take for example: 'The final day of my Grandad's life, he made jokes about the lack of sex in hospitals. My Gran scolded him. I loved watching them like that. His body was in tatters. An old coat. Worn and weathered and protecting him from neither wind nor rain any more. Storms would be impossible to bear. When he died, I thought of this coat coming off. Finally, an unzipping of such a heavy burden...' 482 page paperback.