The Cat Prince

Every page of The Cat Prince brought me gladsome joy. Pedersen has the astonishing power of finding the astonishing in every moment that deserves a raised glass. This celebration of life is partly achieved through his humorous way with words that constantly made me laugh out! – Daljit Nagra
Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There’s a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection. It’s poetry to intoxicate. Just sublime. * Juno Dawson *
A brilliant book that guards its innocence with open arms – Zaffar Kunial
This laser focused collection of poetry by Michael Pedersen will gut you like a fish and smash your heart in. Searingly specific, exquisite and requisite. I relished reading every tiny morsel of it – Shirley Manson
Endlessly boyishly playful, defiantly un-macho and un-afraid to be daft – Liz Lochhead
If the alphabet is a piano keyboard then Michael Pedersen plays it with the confidence and panache of a jazz improviser who knows that every note can have the potential to change someone’s life. Be amazed by this book – Ian McMillan
Open-hearted, gut-wrenching and yet elegiac, these poems pack a hefty emotional punch. Michael Pederson’s poems display a huge vocabulary for love, love in all its many forms and guises. These poems chart the journey from boyhood to manhood, the highs and the lows, the losses and the gains, always working their way towards an essential, emotional truth – Jackie Kay
In this latest stunning collection, [Pedersen] touches on themes of life-altering friendship, loss, nature and love * Scots Magazine *
Lyrical Gangster * Greg McHugh *
The Peter Pan of poetry * Gutter Magazine *
Leading the way in new Scottish writing * The Scotsman *

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. He’s published two acclaimed collections of poetry, his second Oyster being a collaboration with Scott Hutchison. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews in the UK and North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. Pedersen also won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the John Mather’s Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. Pedersen’s work has attracted praise from the likes of Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Maggie Smith, Sara Pascoe, and many more. Co-founder of the literary collective Neu! Reekie!, he is the 2023-2025 Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh.

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