'A wonderful poet and an animated performer, he has a really wide
mind, and a huge generous heart' Jackie Kay 'Michael's poems are so
physical you can almost touch the images in them. Fabulously
sensual and alive. I adore poetry like this' Stephen Fry 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 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.
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