The latest collection by the poet Hollie McNish is dedicated to anyone who has been “blamed, shamed, pressured, tortured, dehumanised, de-mothered over a man-made concept about your own body”. Virgin is a series of poems and prose stories aimed at busting myths and challenging stereotypes about sex and the body. McNish narrates and, as you’d expect from a poet and spoken word artist, she brings her entire self to her performance, as though she is in the room. Elsewhere, she takes issue with the idea that men who have had lots of lovers are “Lotharios” who are good at sex, whereas women are “sluts”. And it is with a note of incredulity that McNish examines the expectation in certain communities that women must be virgins when they marry.