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Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and animateur. He has published two successful chapbooks and an acclaimed debut collection Play With Me (Polygon). His second collection, Oyster, surfaced in 2017, also with Polygon, and was illustrated by and performed as a live show with Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison.
He was shortlisted for 2018 Writer of the Year (Herald's Scottish Culture Awards), named a 'Canongate Future 40', awarded the John Mather Trust Rising Star of Literature 2014 (appointed by Scottish Poetry Library), and received a Cove Park residency and the 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship travelling to Grez-sur-Loing in France. Allied to this, he co-runs/co-founded Neu! Reekie! events, publishing, record label, known as one of the UK's fastest moving arts collectives. Now over eight years old, Neu! Reekie! have produced shows all over the globe.
Michael has collaborated with artists, musicians and filmmakers, whilst scripting short plays for National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh Art Festival. Having developed an electric reputation on the performance circuit he has read at various events throughout the world including: Edinburgh International Book Festival; Sidewalk Café (New York); Lake of Stars Festival (Malawi); Meiji Gakuin Arts (Tokyo); Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Indonesia).
(Photo credit: James Barlow)
(Works in Scots)