Michael Pedersen – Lyrical Mehfil
Step into the world of lyrical poetry with this captivating segment from our 2023 Lyrical Mehfil event! In this video, watch a performance from prize-winning Scottish poet and author, Michael Pedersen.
The full event is also available on our Watch & Listen page, featuring some of the most innovative and exciting contemporary voices from around the world such as Ambareen Haseeb Ambar, Isabelle Baafi, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Alycia Pirmohamed, Anthony Joseph and Sukina Noor.
About the Poet
Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to luscious reviews in both the UK and North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice 2022. He’s produced two acclaimed collections of poetry with a third, The Cat Prince & Other Poems, due for release in July 2023 with Little Brown. Pedersen 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 Scottish Culture Awards. Pedersen also founded the prize-winning literary collective Neu! Reekie! and has attracted praise from the likes Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Maggie Smith, Jackie Kay, Sara Pascoe and more.
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