Hollie McNish: The Lobster Tour

Hollie McNish is a poet whose live shows are not to be missed. After a run of sold out gigs up and down the UK, she is back with the launch tour of the paperback of Lobster and other things I'm learning to love. A Sunday Times bestselling book, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted chat and poetry as she reads from her latest collection plus a selection of firm favourites from Slug and Nobody Told Me.

In Lobster, Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and newborns, clocks, cocks and volvos, shining a ridiculous and beautifully poetic lens upon all those things we have been taught to hate, and which we might just learn to love again.

Here, she will be joined by fellow poet and performer Michael Pedersen reading from his brand new and beautiful debut novel Muckle Flugga.

Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the gig

"Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest" - Sarah Millican
“Her writing is sublime” – Ellie Taylor
"This book is so good" - Musa Okwonga
“Makes me cry and howl with laughter” - Paapa Essiedu
“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay
“One of the best poets we have”. – Matt Haig
''Never have we needed her more' - Stylist

About the Author
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 was out in March 2024.

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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.

'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'. — Stephen Fry

'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest

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