presented by Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen
Running time: 2 hours, including a 20 minute interval.
Suitable for ages 14+
charity. comedy. family. live music. opera. play. poetry. storytelling.
“One of the best poets we have”
Hollie McNish is a Sunday Times bestselling author and poet whose live readings are not to be missed. Expect strong language and adult content ribbon wrapped in carefully and caringly sculpted poetry from her latest collection Slug and more.
Here, she will be joined by fellow poet Michael Pedersen, reading from Boy Friends, his poetic memoir about friendship which Stephen Fry has declared 'enchanting...astonishingly compelling...rare and to be treasured'.
About Hollie McNish
“One of the best poets we have” – Matt Haig
“Utterly fearless: an essential voice for our times - Musa Okwonga
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
“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay
About Michael Pedersen
'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'.’ — Stephen Fry
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, scribbler, stitcher. He's unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry with a poetic prose debut, Boy Friends, out with Faber & Faber in July 2022. 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, his writing has attracted plaudits from voices as luscious as: Irvine Welsh, Jackie Kay, Shirley Manson & Charlotte Church.
'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest