Prize-winning poet & Edinburgh Makar, Michael Pedersen, joins us for a launch of his debut novel, Muckle Flugga.

MICHAEL PEDERESEN is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Cat Prince & Other Poems, his third collection, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has been praised by the likes of: Stephen Fry, Irvine Welsh, Kae Tempest, Sara Pascoe & many other fine minds. His ‘hotly contested’ debut novel Muckle Flugga will be published by Faber in May 2025.

MUCKLE FLUGGA

Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger’s arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer’s future hanging in the balance.

A novel of landscape and lore, friendship and family, bumps-in-the-night and celestial secrets.