Description
Evoking a Scotland full of feline magic, majestic nature and glorious gothic atmosphere, The Cat Prince & Other Poems sees the award-winning poet in his finest, bravest and most vulnerable form.
The Books Are My Bag Reader's Awards Poetry Winner 2023
The Cat Prince & Other Poems is the third collection from prize-winning poet, and author of Boy Friends, Michael Pedersen.
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. From the brutalising death of a cherished friend comes a gut-wrenching grief. And so begins a tenacious quest for light, lustre and survival as Pedersen pays tender tribute to a gorgeous, life-altering friendship. In doing so, he harks back to the hilarity of being young, reckless and petrified: memories of boys showboating in a fishing tackle shop, games of feline metamorphosis, laments for demolished buildings and a case of constipation of the most pernicious stock.
As frisky as it is fierce, The Cat Princepounces around the poet's emotional and physical landscapes, past and present, unfankling a Scotland full of gothic splendour and nature's majesty
Book Details
Format: |
Hardcover |
Number of Pages: |
112 |
ISBN: |
9781472156884 |
Published: |
6 Jul 2023 |
Dimensions: |
143 x 223 x 14 (mm) |
Language: |
English |
