Book Tour: Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
Hollie McNish is a Sunday Times bestselling author and poet whose live readings are not to be missed. Here, she will be reading from her latest collections plus new work, joined by fellow poet Michael Pedersen, reading from his brand new collection The Cat Prince and Boy Friends, his poetic memoir about friendship which Stephen Fry has declared 'enchanting...astonishingly compelling...rare and to be treasured' launching.
Expect strong language and adult content ribbon wrapped in carefully and caringly sculpted poetry from their latest collections.
Quotes for Hollie’s work
“One of the best poets we have” – Matt Haig
“Utterly fearless: an essential voice for our times - Musa Okwonga
“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay
“Rubbish” – Ellie Wheeler, The Telegraph
Quotes for Michael’s work
‘Uncommonly romantic, irreverent and, at times, laugh out loud funny.’ —Shirley Manson
'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'.’ — Stephen Fry
'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded, BOY FRIENDS is a love letter to friendship.' —Jackie Kay
Bios
Hollie McNish is a Sunday Times bestselling author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and her most recent poetic memoir Slug...and other things I’ve been told to hate, which covers topics from grief to otters, grandmothers to Finnish saunas. She has just completed a re-imagining of Sophocles’ Greek Tragedy Antigone. She really loves plums and writing poems
Website: www.holliemcnish.com
Instagram / Twitter: @holliepoetry
Facebook: /holliepoetry
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, stitcher. His third collection of poetry, The Cat Prince & Other Poems, launches with Corsair / Little Brown in July 2023. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave-reviews both in the UK and North America. He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award, and was a finalist for the 2018 Writer of the Year at The Herald Scottish Culture Awards. With work anthologised by Pan MacMillan and Canongate Books, and fans that range from Stephen Fry and Shirley Manson to Kae Tempest and Irvine Welsh, Pedersen also co-founded the infamous Neu! Reekie! literary production house.
www.michaelpedersen.co.uk Instagram:: @michaelpedersenoyster Twitter: @scribepedersen
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