This book, a collection of poetry written both recently & way-back-in-her-youth by Hollie McNish, is as lively and entertaining as I was worried it wouldn't be. I saw Hollie live last year and her delivery of spoken word is just so full and engaging that for some reason I'd developed an apprehension that reading it written wouldn't be as good. To be fair it's not, but that's not the point cos they're still good poems. Aside from all that fluff I do actually really like her audacious choice to include stuff she wrote when much younger - there are recurring themes of growth, failure, learning and changing across the wide variety of topics reflected upon, and seeing the stark gear-shifts on certain matters with age really helps a lot of the gaps in between her poems hit home harder than they otherwise would. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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