Name: Michael Pedersen
Start: 2023-09-23T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-09-23T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Waterstones

Michael Pedersen

Byres Road Book Festival

Waterstones

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, stitcher. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh.He&#x27;s unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry with Polygon Books with a third (The Cat Prince &amp; 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 &amp; Faber in 2022 in the UK &amp; North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the John Mather&#x27;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.His poetry and writing has appeared in the likes of: The Poetry Review New Statesman, The Rialto, Ambit, The Dark Horse, Gutter, The Scotsman, Popshot, Q, The Skinny, Guardian and more.

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