Name: An evening with Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen
Start: 2024-11-15T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Strandgade 6, 1401 Copenhagen, Denmark

An evening with Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen

Poesiens Hus proudly presents: An evening with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen!
Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen are two of the UK and Scotland's most beloved poets whose live readings are not to be missed. After a run of sold out shows up and down the UK, and Europe, join them at Poesiens Hus (House of Poetry) for their long-awaited Denmark debut.
Expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry as Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen chat and read from their latest poetry collections, Lobster and other things I'm learning to love, and The Cat Prince.
Adult content warning 14+
Show starts at 19.30, doors open at 19.
About Hollie McNish
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 and translated into French under the title Je souhaite seulement que tu fasses quelque chose de toi. Her new book, Lobster, and other things I'm learning to love is out in March 2024. She loves writing.
Website: www.holliemcnish.com
Instagram: @holliepoetry
TikTok: @holliemcnish
Facebook: /holliepoetry
Twitter: @holliepoetry
Youtube: /holliemcnish

About Michael Pedersen
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. 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.
Instagram:: @michaelpedersenoyster
Twitter: @scribepedersen