Edinburgh Makar lined up to ‘excite, provoke and entertain’ St Duthac Books and Arts Festival crowd at Tain event
AN Easter Ross audience is being promised an “exciting, provocative and entertaining” day out courtesy of an award-winning poet and author.
The St Duthac Books and Arts Festival has confirmed award-winning Scottish poet and author Michael Pedersen will attend the event on Thursday, September 11.
The Edinburgh Makar and the writer in residence at The University of Edinburgh has just published a “hotly contested” debut novel, Muckle Flugga, which was published by Faber in May.
Previously, he has published three collections of poetry. The Cat Prince & Other Poems won Best Poetry at the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK & North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards.
Pedersen has collaborated with musicians, film-makers, and visual artists and his writing has appeared in the likes of The Poetry Review, The Guardian and New Statesman.
Festival chair, Frances Wood, said: “We have an excellent record of poetry at the Festival and Michael looks set to continue this lineage.
“Exciting, provocative and entertaining, I fully expect to see the Edinburgh Makar stirring up the Easter Ross crowd and providing a fine afternoon out.”
Michael Pedersen will be appearing at the St Duthus Hotel, on September 3pm. Tickets and further details are available at https://www.stduthacbookfest.com