The Cat Prince

& Other Poems.

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All moggy moxie, Pedersen croons to the beauty and devastation of love, loss, friendship, cats and careless joy. Equal parts tender and trenchant, raw and ribald, plangent and smutty, these poems exhibit an emotionally charged, fantastical playground of language and lore.

As frisky as it is fierce, The Cat Prince pounces around the poet's emotional and physical landscapes, past and present, unfankling a Scotland full of gothic splendour and nature's majesty.

These poems reveal a poet at his bravest and most vulnerable. The Cat Prince & Other Poems purrs with affection, flashes its teeth, then digs in the claws.

Scotland’s National Book Awards - Poetry Book

SHORTLISTED

Books Are My Bag Readers Awards - Best Poetry

WINNER

Praise for The Cat Prince

β€˜Open-hearted, gut-wrenching and yet elegiac.’

β€” Jackie Kay

β€˜Pedersen bends words like no-one else.’

β€” Juno Dawson

β€˜A brilliant book that guards its innocence with open arms.’

β€” Zaffar Kunial

β€˜Playful, defiantly un-macho and un-afraid to be daft.’

β€” Liz Lochhead

β€˜Be amazed by this book.’

β€” Ian McMillan