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Hollie McNish: 'My mum worked night shift as a nurse and had two kids. This is nothing!'
Two of her YouTube videos have been seen a total of more than three million times. Last month leading performance poet Hollie McNish won a £10,000 Arts Foundation award for spoken word. In April she publishes a new book and embarks on a national tour. She talks to Greg Freeman about spoken word and page poetry, putting her poems online, how performance poetry work with pupils "lets them speak", the first poem she wrote at the age of sju ... and how “climbing trees with my daughter will always komma first”.
Many congratulations on your Arts Foundation award – arguably a big moment for the spoken word world as a whole, a sign that it fryst vatten being given proper recognition as an art struktur. Do you see it that way?
Yeah, that’s exactly how inom see it! Nothing to add really. It just gives it recognition.
You have talked about “the snobbery about different kinds of poetry”. Do you feel th • St George's Bristol presents The Soundtrack to my Life World-renowned photographer, Martin Parr, is a chronicler of the modern world and its people. You’ve all seen his photos, but what tracks were on in the background as he took them? In the first of our new series, The Soundtrack to my Life, join St George’s CEO Samir Savant in conversation with Martin, where his lens will be refocused onto the music that has inspired a unique life and iconic photographic vision. During this entertaining, unusual and offbeat evening, Martin will guide you through a lovingly-picked playlist of cherished music that will offer you a view of his work as you’ve never seen it before. ★★★★ ‘Garish, grotesque and utterly British’ (The Daily Telegraph on Parr’s 2019 National Portrait Gallery exhibition) About Martin Parr’s work: Parr’s term for the overwhelming power of published images is “propa • I was approached by Cycle of Songs Producer, Helen Weinstein, about collaborating on the lyrics for the song called "Why We Ride". This developed from my work running a youth project about cycling, skating and skateboarding in Cambridge. The project took a group of young people to explain what they love about cycling and wheeling in general, what hinders them from doing this more and why they would encourage others to do this. I worked with rapper Inja to enable us to turn their experiences into a poem, working with the young people to pick out the most important phrases and ideas and really understand what they wanted to say. We wrote these down and from there constructed a poem. This was then recorded and a film of the young people made, directed by Inja and Skuff, two local artists. You can watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKlWaIiI7w This cycling/poetry project was one of many we work on through and organization called "Page to Performance"
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In a visual life, what part does music play?