A event on Friday 30th May. The event starts at 18:30.
Announcing the triumphant return of Storysmith fave (and Edinburgh Makar) Michael Pedersen, back in Bristol after two previous sell-out visit to our shop to celebrate the release of his long-awaited debut novel Muckle Flugga!
After devouring his non-fiction debut Boy Friends and his award-winning poetry collection The Cat Prince, we can’t wait to hear more about this tale dicey and divided affections on a rugged island…
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of Muckle Flugga (rrp £16.99) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
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About Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh, and the new Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate).
He’s unfurled three acclaimed collections of poetry, his most recent, The Cat Prince & Other Poems (Little Brown: 2023), won Best Poetry at the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK & North America – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards.
Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, and has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the John Mather’s Trust Rising Star of Literature Award.
With work anthologised by the likes of Pan MacMillan and Canongate, Pedersen has collaborated with musicians, film-makers, and visual artists. His writing has appeared in the likes of: The Poetry Review, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Rialto, Ambit, The Dark Horse, Gutter, The Scotsman, Q Magazine, and more.
Pedersen also co-founded Neu! Reekie! – a prize-winning literary production house that produced cutting edge shows in Scotland and the world over for over ten years. Within this capacity he has produced and curated events for: Edinburgh International Festival; Edinburgh International Book Festival; Hull City of Culture; Mayor of London’s Borough of Culture; BBC Arts; and more. He also co-edited the Neu! Reekie! anthology series, published by Polygon Books, charting ten years of Neu! Reekie! through poetry and music.
About Muckle Flugga
Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger’s arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer’s future hanging in the balance. It’s no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The elements run riot and the very rocks that shape the place begin to shift under their influence.
The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse. Them, and the occasional lodger to keep the wolf from the door. When one of those lodgers – Firth, a chaotic writer – arrives from Edinburgh, the limits of the world the keeper and his son cling to begin to crumble.
A tug of war ensues between Firth and the lighthouse keeper for Ouse’s affections – and his future. As old and new ways collide, and life-changing decisions loom, what will the tides leave standing in their wake?
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
After devouring his non-fiction debut Boy Friends and his award-winning poetry collection The Cat Prince, we can’t wait to hear more about this tale dicey and divided affections on a rugged island…
Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of Muckle Flugga (rrp £16.99) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!
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About Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh, and the new Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate).
He’s unfurled three acclaimed collections of poetry, his most recent, The Cat Prince & Other Poems (Little Brown: 2023), won Best Poetry at the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK & North America – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards.
Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, and has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the John Mather’s Trust Rising Star of Literature Award.
With work anthologised by the likes of Pan MacMillan and Canongate, Pedersen has collaborated with musicians, film-makers, and visual artists. His writing has appeared in the likes of: The Poetry Review, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Rialto, Ambit, The Dark Horse, Gutter, The Scotsman, Q Magazine, and more.
Pedersen also co-founded Neu! Reekie! – a prize-winning literary production house that produced cutting edge shows in Scotland and the world over for over ten years. Within this capacity he has produced and curated events for: Edinburgh International Festival; Edinburgh International Book Festival; Hull City of Culture; Mayor of London’s Borough of Culture; BBC Arts; and more. He also co-edited the Neu! Reekie! anthology series, published by Polygon Books, charting ten years of Neu! Reekie! through poetry and music.
About Muckle Flugga
Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger’s arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer’s future hanging in the balance. It’s no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The elements run riot and the very rocks that shape the place begin to shift under their influence.
The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse. Them, and the occasional lodger to keep the wolf from the door. When one of those lodgers – Firth, a chaotic writer – arrives from Edinburgh, the limits of the world the keeper and his son cling to begin to crumble.
A tug of war ensues between Firth and the lighthouse keeper for Ouse’s affections – and his future. As old and new ways collide, and life-changing decisions loom, what will the tides leave standing in their wake?
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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