Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen

Following a sold out appearance at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre in late 2021, poet Hollie McNish returns to the venue on July 13, this time joined by prize-winning poet, writer and Neu! Reekie! co-founder Michael Pedersen.

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, scribbler, stitcher. He’s produced two acclaimed collections of poetry (Polygon Books) with a poetic prose debut, Boy Friends, which will be published by 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, Stephen Fry & Charlotte Church. Pedersen also co-runs and co-founded the literary collective Neu! Reekie!, who’ve been launching poetic rockets for over ten years noo.