Hollie McNish, on the words we're not supposed to say
The British poet talks to En attendant Nadeau about her latest book, published for this year's rentrée littéraire, which takes aim at the language used to shame women's bodies.
The poet Hollie McNish is interviewed in En attendant Nadeau about her new book, Je me demande pourquoi on ne peut pas dire non, tout simplement, part of the 2026 rentrée littéraire. According to the outlet, the book uses a biting, unsparing language to strip away the guilt attached to the female body and to reclaim the words used to describe it.
En attendant Nadeau describes the work as liberating in its approach, with McNish using sharp, direct language rather than euphemism to talk about the body and the words that surround it.
No further detail on the book's contents, form or publisher is given in the source material.
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