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Hollie McNish is a poet whose live shows are not to be missed. After a run of sold-out gigs up and down the UK (including a full house here at TOM), she is back with the launch tour of the paperback of Lobster and other things I'm learning to love.
A Sunday Times bestselling book, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted chat and poetry as she reads from her latest collection plus a selection of firm favourites from Slug and Nobody Told Me.
In Lobster, Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and newborns, clocks, cocks and volvos, shining a ridiculous and beautifully poetic lens upon all those things we have been taught to hate, and which we might just learn to love again.
"Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest" - Sarah Millican
"Her writing is sublime" - Ellie Taylor
"One of the best poets we have" – Matt Haig
Plus poet and performer Michael Pedersen
Michael is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, and stitcher. He is currently Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. He's unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry with Polygon Books with a third (The Cat Prince & Other Poems) published by Corsair/Little Brown in July 2023. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 in the UK & North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice.
He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award, and was a finalist for the 2018 ‘Writer of the Year’ at The Herald Scottish Culture Awards. With work anthologised by the likes of Pan MacMillan and Canongate Books, Pedersen has collaborated with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists.
"A master of words. He plays them like music" - Kae Tempest
"Enchanting... astonishingly compelling... sparklingly written... rare and to be treasured" - Stephen Fry
Seated (reserved)
Doors: 18:45
Tickets: £15
Age: 14+, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
A £2 venue levy charge applies to all tickets