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This is a book about growing up, about flesh, fruit, friendships, work and play – and the urgent need to find a voice for the poems that will somehow do the whole glorious riot of it justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003ePlum\u003c\/i\u003e, McNish allows her recent poems to be interrupted by earlier writing from her younger selves – voices that speak out from the past with disarming and often very funny results. \u003ci\u003ePlum\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration, a salute to a life in which we are always growing, stumbling, falling, changing and discovering new selves to add to our own messy store. 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