Michael Pedersen

is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author and arts producer. His second collection, Oyster, was a collaboration with Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit) and his third The Cat Prince & Other Poems will be published by Little Brown in July 2022 . His poetic prose debut, Boy Friends, came out with Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK and North America, and is now travelling into translation editions. Among other accolades, he won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and a John Mathers Trust Rising Star Award. Pedersen also founded Neu! Reekie!, a prize-winning arts collective who produced cutting-edge shows across the UK (and the world) for over a decade. 

'Lucid, Lyrical, loaded' —Jackie Kay

'Cool, quirky, smart and hilarious' — Irvine Welsh

'Every sentence sparkles. I loved this book.' —Maggie Smith

'Will have your heart throbbing for friendship.' —Sara Pascoe

'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest 

 'Joyful and comic with a stone of sadness at the centre.' —David Shrigley 

‘Uncommonly romantic, irreverent and laugh out loud funny.’ —Shirley Manson

‘Tugs at every heartstring I have. Beautiful and overflowing deep humanity.’ —Charlotte Church 

'A rallying cry to gulp down every joyful, raw, painful, ugly, beautiful breath of life.'—Alan Cumming

'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured.’ —Stephen Fry

See further: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk