Nobody Told Me - Poetry and Parenthood by Hollie McNish Summer Bulletin / the wheat that dies

/ the wheat that dies into bread and portions out our lives

fluid and propulsive

The long-poem turned murder-mystery ‘Quiver’ is represented by a number of poems in the sequence

as if to emphasise her poems' gentle refusal of existing phrases

continue his tradition of political engagement

Nobody Told Me - Poetry and Parenthood by Hollie McNish Summer Bulletin / the wheat that diesWinner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didn't know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as a member of