Hollie McNish: The Lobster Tour with Michael Pedersen
Hollie McNish is back with a brand new book, 'Lobster and other things I'm learning to love'. Joining her is Michael Pedersen, a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler & stitcher.
About Hollie McNish: The Lobster Tour with Michael Pedersen
| 13th March 2024 | |
| 8pm | |
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The Queens Hall Edinburgh 85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh South EH8 9JG |
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| £12.50 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
After a run of sold out shows up and down the UK, Hollie McNish is back with a brand new book, 'Lobster and other things I'm learning to love'. A Sunday Times bestselling writer whose live readings are not to be missed, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry.
In Lobster, Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and newborns, clocks, cocks and volvos, shining a ridiculous and beautifully poetic lens upon all those things we have been taught to hate, and which we might just learn to love again. Here, she will be joined by fellow poet Michael Pedersen reading from his latest brilliant books, 'The Cat Prince' and 'Boy Friends'.
Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the gig.
Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and 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 'Slug', which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her new book, 'Lobster, and other things I'm learning to love' is out now. She loves writing.
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, stitcher. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. He's unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry with Polygon Books with a third ('The Cat Prince & Other Poems') published by Corsair/Little Brown in July 2023—the title poem of which is currently shortlisted for the Forward Prizes. His prose debut, 'Boy Friends', was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK & North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. 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 the likes of Pan MacMillan and Canongate Books, Pedersen has collaborated with musicians, film-makers, and visual artists.
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