Oyster

By Michael Pedersen

Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. This collection, illustrated by Scott Hutchison, better known as front man of Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit, is the much anticipated follow up to 2013's Play With Me, also published by Polygon. Michael Pedersen has a growing reputation and can count among his fans Irvine Welsh, Stephen Fry, Young Fathers and Liz Lochhead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Polygon
• Release date: Sep 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780857903662

Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen has published two successful chapbooks and an acclaimed debut collection Play with Me (Polygon, 2013). His second collection, Oyster, surfaced in 2017 and was illustrated by – and performed as a live show with – Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison. Pedersen was: named a ‘Canongate Future 40’; a finalist in the 2018 Writer of the Year at the Herald Scottish Culture Awards; awarded the John Mather Trust Rising Star of Literature Award 2014; and won the 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship – travelling to Grez-sur-Loing in France.  Pedersen also co-runs and co-founded Neu! Reekie! – a prize winning arts collective, known for producing cutting-edge shows all over the globe and hosting take-overs for National Galleries, National Museums and major festivals.

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