Michael Pedersen
@ScribePedersen
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📚 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 @FaberBooks ; 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 @CorsairBooks ; 𝙊𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 @PolygonBooks . Writer in Residence at @EdinburghUni 💫 💜
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To the friends we loved to excess yet still not nearly enough. 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 is out today in hardback/e-book/audiobook. I would adore it if you lassoed a copy from your favourite bookshop. It’s a, years-in-the-making, love-letter to friendship.💜
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To my best friend Scott. We love you and miss you to levels it’s hard to describe at the moment. World 🌍 we know you miss him too. ‘Be so good to everyone you love....hug your loved ones’....that was his last message and mine to you today.
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Please share - we’re looking for Scott.
RTs appreciated -
@IrvineWelsh
@CreativeScots
@scottishbktrust
@ByLeavesWeLive
@NeuReekie
@bellacaledonia
@theskinnymag
@thelistmagazine
@PolygonBooks
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Some more glorious news! I’m the new Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. What a day for the honey hearted (this one)💛💛💛💛
Award-winning poet and author Michael Pedersen has been appointed as the newest Writer in Residence
@LLCatEdinburgh
. The Edinburgh-born author joins a stellar line-up of writers who have previously held the role. Find out more 👇
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It is
#NationalPoetryDay
in the UK. Here be a poem from my most missed poet/person/friend/musical marvel maker.
Scott Hutchison - 'Silence, North Carolina'
#MakeTinyChanges
Poem fae
@NeuReekie
#UntitledOne
Scott Photos
@RyanMcGoverne
from my two books launches (2017 & 2013)
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Doing something for the one we miss/love: Michael Pedersen’s Oyster Party for Scott Hutchison - 16/08 @ EIBF. Me
@holliepoetry
,
@witheredhand
@eahanks
& more.
We’ll raise an Oyster in his name and some money for charity (by collection, products etc).
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I’m soppy as they come that Boy Friends has been shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction Book at Scotland’s National Book Awards. To have it soaring under their banner, alongside aw these beauties, is a total thrill. Here’s to the glimmer of those we miss / long live friendship love 💜.
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Good grief, a new book. I’ve never worked words so carefully or with such conviction for them to do some good out there in the bluster of it. A paean to friendship awaits—really hope yiz like it.
Working with a dream team
@alexavh
/
@FaberBooks
/
@IAmBeckish
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What a gift to soar with him for a while. & we’re all still laughing & crying, clinking cups & slurping oysters to his lustre, to the gooey marmalade giggles live-wiring our memories.
to the friends we love to excess
yet still not nearly
enough
& to h-craft (a-l-w-a-y-s) 🩵
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Last year we launched Oysters all over the globe and I loved it. Chuffed now to be up for Best Writer at The Scottish Culture Awards 2018. A whole platter of lush and wonderful faces share this plate.
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The Cat Prince has only went and won the
@booksaremybag
Readers Award for Best Poetry! 😭 This plays me like a flute 💜. To have had this book voted for by booksellers & the public beyond is the most gorgeous accolade a writer can be gifted. Here are some who cast magic on us 💚.
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Wee
@littlekatphotos
only just went and won second place in the Scottish Portrait Awards - Photography category! The piece is called OYSTER BOYS and will be exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow & beyond!
Me & Scott Hutchison on the loveliest day. Yer a bobby dazzler Kat!
@FRabbits
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I have now started as Writer in Residence at
@EdinburghUni
& this stunning position has just popped up: Early Career Teaching & Research Fellow Creative Writing. It's a fast start to come zest with me & a lush department of literary star gazers. Pls RT 💜
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On your birthday, a poem; your poem. Many minds flock to the great & gorgeous Scott Hutchison today—the magic he conjured, the impetus for brave & gallant deeds he still invokes. What a privilege to be one of the many. Go listen to his music / fawn over his art / hug a friend 💜.
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To have launched BOY FRIENDS within the folds of
@edbookfest
alongside Shirley Manson (
@garbage
) &
@charlottechurch
was extraordinary. I’m so grateful to these amazing humans & still thrumming from aw the love, joy, spirit & tenderness that filled the theatre last night.
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Sure, often, it’s the out-takes that tell the real story. Three daft pictures, one for each infinity. Of course, mostly, I remember the laughing.
Long live the love in it/get them giggles oot.
All 📸s by lush chum
@littlekatphotos
.
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6 years ago it was a steamy Saturday night in July and I launched ma first collection of poems oot into Edinburgh (and Glasgow beyond). I had the help of some of the finest folks to sweat in sun; and
@RyanMcGoverne
's camera lens close at hand.
Play With Me (Polygon, 2013).
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Fondly flabbergasted to see a Brian Eno poster in Perugia whilst on a wee writing retreat.
Moments later, I’m in amongst the lustre of it / will be revelling in ‘Reflected’ for weeks to come.
Only went and marvelled aw over it.
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This weekend I got sun cream in my eye and thought about a trip to the aquarium.
If you ever go to Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium I heartily recommend the full souvenir photo pack.
This weekend I listened to the music (slurped back the words) of Scott Hutchison.
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Naw Facebook that’s not a significant memory at all! Oyster photo shoot at
@NO1THEGRANGE
by
@littlekatphotos
a year ago.
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Tonight, soppy-eyed & hot-hearted, I represent this book at the Saltire National Book Awards. So many stunners in the shortlisted mix; all across the board. Scottish literature is lithe, lustrous & lusty. Wish me, aw us, luck. It’s a moment of great glittering gratitude ✨💜🩵
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Been off radar a wee bit / thanks stars for the flood of love /
@NeuReekie
come back to you Friday wi something important/vital.
@RevMagnetic
@HelenMort
@BenidzeSalome
@The_Honey_Farm
Erin Friel & more. I'll have a wee thing to say for ma pal.
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Just had the sublime honour of being in-conversation with
@sarapascoe
at
@edbookfest
for her new/first novel WEIRDO. It’s a stunner of a book (tender, trenchant, guffaws galore, hot with heart-break) out soon with
@FaberBooks
. Lasso a copy when you can 💚
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When ya arrive back at
@NeuReekie
HQ and
@littlekatphotos
hus left you a wonder hamper of a gift....it’s onto lightness and laughter and tears and treasures of every which colour, in catapult.
THANK YE! Yer pure barry... 😊🍓🌟🦉.....
.....
(most of the time).
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Ate some Oysters in good company in New York 4 years ago.
Then again, and again, and again.
Ziggy I think you got the bill.
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I will not be delivering my inaugural reading in Brighton today, as initially scheduled.
I have instead taken this opportunity to commence an audit of my knitwear.
Carpe ‘f*cking’ Diem.
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Official publication date of this weird book 𝘖𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 is 1st Sept 2017 (although we’d snuck it out before).
On this day, myself & Scott launched it thigether in the N!R! tent at Electric Fields surrounded by the lushest faces.
3yrs old / 5th print+
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What a thrill it was reading at
@BradfordLitFest
’s sublime Lyrical Mehfil and chatting with the maestro
@IrvineWelsh
about 30 years of Trainspotting (that’s when I could tear him away from his beloved book 😹👑). Yes, we all danced the Irvine disco to bring the night home! 🪩
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We did a video fur Midnight Organ Flight. It's me,
@holliepoetry
&
@witheredhand
with
@littlekatphotos
&
@MrRossHogg
(who stitched it aw thigether). It's The Twist by
@FRabbits
.
Hat tipped to
@UllapoolBookFes
for having us.
🌏💫
@frankturner
@NeuReekie
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That’s me &
@charlottechurch
& Shirley Manson (
@garbage
) in conversation at
@edbookfest
on 24/08.
I’m about the luckiest word slinger in town to be confabbing wi these two pioneering artists on my book & friendship & art & beyond.
Tickets are loose 💜🎆:
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Tickets for this big beating heart of a ‘hing are now live - Michael Pedersen’s Oyster Party for Scott Hutchison with
@witheredhand
@holliepoetry
@eahanks
& more.
16/08 The Speigeltent -
@edbookfest
Tix:
We make it count.
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Sometimes people leaving ropes you tighter thegither / gooey, squishy in the missing. This happened here. & so every time me,
@holliepoetry
&
@witheredhand
get together there’s a fullness to the absence. Especially when there’s songs & poems. Come Sunday it’s
@fringebythesea2
.
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One of the the warmest breezes to have gusted our way. Left buoyed by his brilliance, wit, sapience and charm time and time again.
Andrew Weatherall in Leith by 📷
@RyanMcGoverne
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Had a few really cherishable messages about Boy Friends this last week — brought this one back to mind amidst a reverie of gratitude. Point is, Monday is an excellent day to tell a friend you love them, should you fancy 🩵💜💚🩷🧡🥰.
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Design darling Jon Gray just won best book cover (non-fiction) for BOY FRIENDS at The Academy of British Cover Design Awards. Here’s to him & his stunning work. He assured me he wouldn’t win because of all the big hitters in the category, forgetting he too hits big.
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Reading / launching Oysters tonight at
@LakeofStars
on the beach stage at 19:00. The boy H-Craft alas will not share this stage but hopefully there’s a glimmer from above. I’ll keep an eye out. Scotland Malawi love.
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I’m chuffed to the cherries to be a guest on / curating an episode of the sublime
@bbcpoetryplease
(hosted by
@McgoughRoger
). I’d love to receive your poem requests — we can then play some on
@BBCRadio4
& sing their praises. Unfurl those poem upon us! 🐈 👑 🩷💜🧡🩵
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1/3 Five years ago today we released our 𝗢𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 out into the world.
Poems by me, illustrations by Scott Hutchison, published by
@PolygonBooks
. It was not so much a book together but a testimony to friendship.
It changed my life. It shapes it still.
Happy Birthday book.
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Some glorious news — a Forward Prize shortlisting for The Cat Price
🐈 👑😭🥰🩵🩷💚
We are proud to announce the
#ForwardPrizes
2023 shortlist for Best Single Poem–Performed:
🌟 Zena Edwards
@ZenaEdwards
🌟 Michael Pedersen
@ScribePedersen
🌟 Bohdan Piasecki
@beveryquiet
🌟 Roger Robinson
@rrobinson72
🌟 Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
@AriaEipe
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Mine & Scott’s book OYSTER has a publication date of 1st September 2017. Here we are on the day at Electric Fields Festival, which FR went on to headline. This book, this human, changed my life. His lustre enriches me still. I’ve given up meat but oysters are forever 🦪💜🦪💜.
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Here be a petition to save Glasgow's
@O2ABC
- - feel its pull. So much sublime spills from this venue. Last time I performed here was alongside Scott - a duo slot supporting
@IdlewildtheBand
. A double nighter of muckle mirth.
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The Cat Prince & Others Poems is out today! 6 years bubbling away on these words, a lifetime of holding back the cat inside, but now the gloves are off & the mask is on 🐈👑.
In all your favourite bookshops. Any sharing / purring is gorgeously appreciated
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Off we go to Unst.
Me, KW & Bill Drummond.
Cabin selfie was a must - ken.
The engine is purring now.
The bottle is open.
🌊☄️💫
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Facebook memories, just take the point already.
When me, Scott,
@IrvineWelsh
&
@finitribe
formed an inter generational boyband in a boxing club.
Sure we never got past the naming stages but I still ponder the concept for the concept album.
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Prepping to speak to
@IrvineWelsh
this afternoon about 30 years of Trainspotting at
@BradfordLitFest
. It made sense to watch the
@Youngfathers
set
@glastonbury
to get the engine revving. What a blast of bravura. 💛🧡🩵💜💚🩷
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Cracking night with
@NicolaSturgeon
celebrating France and Scotland at Scot Hub France in Paris - tried for the selfie but the Deputy Mayor of Paris tossed me an elbow and got in aboot it (rightly so). Wouldnae get that wi
@scothubireland
;-)
Glasses came out more golden.
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Thinking of seafood platters and forced Christmas shirts. Personally, I like the scavenger gull.
You have taught me so much my friend, and I’ll forever be working on it. 🦪 💜🍆
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Happy 5th birthday to ma debut collection ‘Play With Me’ which we launched 6th July 2013 in Edinburgh at
@ScotStoryCentre
. Some lush ones - they helped something mighty.
Special salutes to
@thedarkhorsemag
&
@PolygonBooks
.
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Some words on the Oyster Party for
@owljohn
from me &
@eahanks
with
@witheredhand
&
@holliepoetry
close at hand.
16/08 at
@edbookfest
⭐️🌎🦉
@scotsman_arts
@scotsman
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A soppy book about male friendship & the gorgeous emotionality of humans is on the front page today. Plus this picture on a strawberry swing taken in Budapest by
@holliepoetry
.
Thank you
@scotsman_arts
&.
@JanetChristie2
&
@indoorscots
.
‘Astonishingly compelling’
@stephenfry
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If you can judge a person’s age by their sock collection, I reckon I’ll need to keep taking my ID oot to any drinking establishment for a few years yet.
Mibees the cinemas too. 🤔🍿
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Our
@NeuReekie
’s first show in Mother Edina since January 2020 bellows into being this Thursday. Our gang is resplendent.
@EdwynCollins
*
@lokiscottishrap
&
@Toidfish
*
@vmcnulty67
* plus Me & KW.
💛 it’s
@edintfest
& everything in ❤️🔥
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Darling Edinburgh! My next
@EdinburghUni
Writer in Residence events have unfurled. On 22/11 I’m with
@JackieKayPoet
at UoE. & on 05/12 I’m with
@NicolaSturgeon
(& special guests) at
@queens_hall
.
YES, the tickets are free.
JK:
NS:
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Chuffed to the star on top of the tree 🎄to see 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 amongst
@TheScotsman
’s 💜 Scottish Books 2022.
This zesty supplement coming Saturday. Some gaggle to be in—with
@lokiscottishrap
, Ali Smith,
@louisewelsh00
& lusciousness beyond.
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I did not read poems in Liverpool last night, as initially scheduled.
Instead, I commenced an audit of my sock drawer.
Carpe Diem.
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YES 🧡💛 today is the paperback publication of BOY FRIENDS—Spring’s daffodil dazzler. It’s lighter, cheaper & much much yellower. Find it thrumming for love in all your favourite book emporiums. Long Live Friendship & gorgeous thanks to all the wonders who’ve helped us soar 💫.
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Brawling behemoth of a queue at the Mary Queen of Scots exhibition at
@natlibscot
. Who knew Scottish history was so popular when twinned with a major feature film?!
The NLS champs are handing oot sweeties though so we’re aw getting jovially rowdier / ready to let rip once in.
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Whit’s this then? Why it’s a
@PortyBookFest
event with
@valmcdermid
@BillyLetford
& me on Sat 7th October. It’s entitled: The Quine of Crime & The Princes of Poetry. Tickets are available to collect from the fab
@PortyLibrary
. Did I mention they’re free / books via
@PortyBooks
💜
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Kick starting 2024’s new term as Writer in Residence at
@EdinburghUni
with a glorious list of books I’ll be rooting for & raving about this year.
+ a canny reminder for those in the Uni fold that the Writing Prizes are all now open. Come join the ranks:
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Tomorrow AM I'm on
@BBC6Music
giving a musing and recommending a track. Lush Gemma Cairney is hosting. Reckon I'm on about 08:40.
Here is Gemma's 📸s of my Oysters and her dancing by the back of my granny's hoose (although she doesn't know it at time).
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Tonight we dance Edinburgh. It’s Neu! Reekie!’s One For The Road / our last bash for the foreseeable.
Non-stop live action from 17:15, so come gather sharp for a Sunday service like no other. We sold out in hours way back—thank you!
Our friends, it’s been some run!
💜💛💚💙❤️🔥
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My wee heart just blasted like a bugle…for here be 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 (the final hardback)❤️🔥💜.
Designed by
@gray318
/ illustrations by Nathaniel Russell / published by
@FaberBooks
/ blurbs thanks to SO many beauties.
Order BF &/or see me launch it:
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UK mini tour done
This book OYSTER is oot
Get it doon you at yer favourite bookstore or from the publisher (please)
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Absolutely gutted to hear about Alasdair Gray. What an absolute titan of literature, ideas, art, the realms beyond very few every reach.
Here’s a couple of his sparks / a wee flicker of his abundant brilliance / never ending coruscation.
Hat tipped to The Dark Horse Magazine.
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Here’s me,
@iambecharlotte
and
@kobionyame
pondering dead serious ruminative stuff in space. Next up we aw head to
@LakeofStars
to unleash smirks and lustre pops.
Snapped by
@littlekatphotos
at
@Summerhallery
the day.
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We’ve just announced a fantabulous GRAY DAY 2022 live show led by Liz Lochhead,
@holliepoetry
&
@valmcdermid
wi more TBA.
It’s at
@OranMorGlasgow
on 25/02/22—under that special AG mural.
We being
@NeuReekie
,
@canongatebooks
&
@AGrayArchive
with OM.
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Last year I was £12 a ticket—this year I’m free, unticketed, available on two dates.
Hud to cut back on spending and get the office chair second hand fae the charity shop. That said, lucked oot.
@edbookfest
Unbound:
15th w/
@holliepoetry
& friends
24th w/
@NeuReekie
Indonesia
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This pure fab documentary on Norman MacCaig is back on
@BBCiPlayer
. Part narrated by Billy Connolly / following Andrew Greig's ace book. With readings from
@JackieKayPoet
, Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney & more. Well worth the digital dance.
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Come Friday we Gray Day fandango live at
@OranMorGlasgow
.
With:
@valmcdermid
,
@holliepoetry
@MrNormanBlake1
, Liz Lochhead & more (like Me & KC’s films).
The last speckling of tickets live here:
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A version of Scott's Oyster illustration from ma book is now available as a pin badge wi 100% of profits going to The Scott Hutchison Fund.
This has aw been lovingly crafted by
@emmaltee
and is available here:
Here is this and us eating oysters by Kat.
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And just once in a while one comes along that blazes so bright the sky is forever changed — vaster, richer in shimmer. On your birthday Scott.
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Tomorrow at 19:30 the Neu! Reekie! Christmas Special beams oot across our networks for free. Aw these faces & a romp beyond:
Charlotte Church
Jackie Kay
Shirley Manson
Irvine Welsh
Nova Scotia The Truth
Hannah Lavery
Callum Easter
+animation by
Ross Hogg
Ainslie Henderson
🎄☃️
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There's yer squad Neu! Reekie! doing an IRL extravaganza show for
@edintfest
on 12th August!
Line-up still TBA but don't dillydally—our last EIF shows included: Michael Rother/Neu!, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lydia Lunch, Pastels & Vaselines, Fire Engines etc.
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Last night was a total joy. Tonight I’m in Hebden Bridge reading with
@holliepoetry
&
@ZaffarKunial
. Tomorrow the lustrous
@Saltire_Society
Book Awards 😬🥰 — Boy Friends alongside the best of them. & the show year ends with Cold Turkey on Friday at
@Summerhallery
. What a gift.
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There’s a
@Waterstones
Special Edition of BOY FRIENDS ft a Q&A with me & the most sublime Shirley Manson (
@garbage
)! It's gorgeous & galvanising & gritty for she is a beacon & I love her lustre. 💜💖💙
A secret chapter with SHIRLEY!
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Gray Day 2021 has grown/is growing still. Alan Cumming, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Ewen Bremner, Louise Welsh, Salena Godden, Gavin Mitchell, Bernard MacLaverty, Eugene Kelly, Liz Lochhead +&+
25/02:
N!R, CB, TAGA x
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It’s post Christmas & so my worth has (quite rightly) plummeted 😹. Both the standard & the special edition of BOY FRIENDS are now half price/£7.49 in the
@Waterstones
Sale. The latter includes a secret chapter of me & Shirley Manson chatting aw zesty.💜
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Brief candles / first flame lit for
@NeuReekie
at
@edintfest
A date: Friday 17th August 2018!
A place:
@LeithTheatre
!
Two sublime names:
@pastels_the
&
@the_vaselines
!
We're elated to huv these marvels on the same bill w/more light and lustre to come.
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One of the best plaudits possible from writing a book like 𝐁𝐨𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 is a message like this. Here’s to a ‘Tell Your Friends You Love Them’ Day 💚💛💜.
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My episode of
@bbcpoetryplease
broadcasts today on
@BBCRadio4
at 16:30. As the blurb teases, there’s poems by
@JackieKayPoet
,
@adalimon
,
@maggiesmithpoet
, Edwin Morgan & so much more 💜. What a whirl to be in the booth with the fab
@McgoughRoger
🐈 👑.
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Right chuffed my
@BBCRadio3
commissioned piece got such a gooey response they’ve now made it an audiogram.
It ends with a nude fist pumping of the air. The TV adaptation not yet secured 😉.
Thanks again
@KateMolleson
.
💜
@ByLeavesWeLive
@PolygonBooks
@NeuReekie
@IAmBeckish
🎤 "Prime up your cosy auditorium..." ¦
@ScribePedersen
's bespoke sonnet to temporarily silenced concert halls everywhere 🎧
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There and back again: lockdown 1 to lockdown 3/4 (?).
My neck & head are now little more than a plinth for this hair’s relentless growth. Where it ends, nobody knows.
Anybody else battled through?
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What a beacon of a bash awaits tomorrow. I’m talking to the fantabulous
@NicolaSturgeon
in a favourite venue, with readings to warm us up from
@valmcdermid
,
@holliepoetry
&
@AndresNOrdorica
(welcome aboard). We’ll be collecting for
@superpow3
with a bookshop from
@Lighthousebks
.
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I am so soppy & chuffed to have The Cat Prince shortlisted for Best Poetry at
@booksaremybag
Readers Awards! & what glorious company. These awards are truly brilliant with bookshops & readers at the helm. As someone who constantly performs & dwells in bookshops it’s a dreamy 🩵💛
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Me &
@witheredhand
&
@holliepoetry
did not perform in Estonia this weekend as intended. WH & I are not now heading to Finland for naked saunas and more shows.
I have instead listened to WH in a freezing shower utilising a spicy mint scrub. It’s aw about clawing back the thrills!
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Chuffed ma poem 'Hello I Am Scotland' is in SPL's/
@ByLeavesWeLive
Best Scottish Poems of 2017 - selected by thon
@RoddyWoomble
.
The poem appears in Oyster / is illustrated by top human
@owljohn
- alongside another 10 of them & the cover.
Lasso AW here:
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There is an excellent article on
@TheLeither
’s face and in its belly - it talks of us /
@NeuReekie
fervently and also
@CarlaJEaston
’s ace to the base nicht and
@hiddendoorarts
too. It’s
@LeithTheatre
/
@edintfest
to the max. In August it roared - here’s to the rest of the year!
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Tomorrow is the last
@NeuReekie
show of the year / marks the end of 8 years programming.
@404Ink
have hud a fantabulous 2 (plus) years in the world - so we’re ganging thigether for a Big Ten at
@Summerhallery
.
Christmas is sorted - get aw the books📚🎄⛄️
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Friends & Lovers—here thrums our cover reveal for 𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 coming with
@FaberBooks
in 2022:
❤️🔥Cover
@gray318
💜Music
@LomondCampbell
❤️🔥Quotes
@JackieKayPoet
@charlottechurch
@garbage
& more
💜Illustration Nathaniel Russell
❤️🔥Pre order:
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Take a voyage into my new episode of
@bbcpoetryplease
. I’m in the hot seat with
@McgoughRoger
unfurling poems by the lustrous likes of
@adalimon
,
@maggiesmithpoet
,
@holliepoetry
,
@JackieKayPoet
, Edwin Morgan, RLS & more. Oh yes, some Cat Prince too 👑💜.
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First acts out the trap for
@NeuReekie
at
@edintfest
on 12/08. We’re elated to the ether to be hosting this gaggle of lustrous humans.
@EdwynCollins
w/Company
&&&&
@lokiscottishrap
w/
@Toidfish
.
There’s a wee bit more to come, but don’t dilly dally 💜
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Oyster & me are on tour in Ireland in May wi the heart-thumpingly brilliant Billy McCarthy (Augustines).
We're in: Belfast 01/05 * Dublin 03/05 * Limerick 06/05 * Galway 07/05.
BM + MP + a very special guest at each show
This is a gooey announcement wi more zest to follow.
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Them sensations
@Youngfathers
played their first gig in around 4 years last night. They were glorious and the new album (out today) is mesmerising / sublime / a feat of bravura. Lasso the album / catch the tour / the maestros hath returned.
💛💖💜🤎💚🖤❤️🔥
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From Oyster: here is a muckle soppy poem aboot eating yer lover alive fur Valentines Day (sort of). It’s mounted on my favourite cushion with a wee flash of my favourite pinkie to get the juices going. I hope you mount something good today and recycle.
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This year's
@NeuReekie
's Unbound night is aw aboot punk poet JOCK SCOT!
Free event wi finest flavours/favourite faces.
25/08 at
@edbookfest
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𝘽𝙤𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 is Non-Fiction Book of the Month at Blackwell’s (Scotland). There’s some scrumptious displays up for the month of August at
@BlackwellEdin
&, of course, I dropped by to sign the 📚. Plus I’m alongside real beauties in
@junodawson
&
@cbrookmyre
💖💜💙💖🧡.
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Fabulosa to talk to
@ScotNational
about The Cat Prince’s shortlisting for the
@booksaremybag
Readers Awards for Best Poetry. Me,
@holliepoetry
, my agent & publisher are all off to
@Foyles
tonight to cheer for everyone. It’s such a glorious shortlist 💜💛.
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Popped in to
@PortyBooks
to sign a gaggle of Boy Friends and my old childminder showed up to get one. Then my sister! Not only that, but I stopped in to see my granny (wee Jessie Lee) on the way up the road. Local writer 🥰. Anyhow, there’s loads of signed copies at TPB now 💛🧡.
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