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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781472156884Number of pages: 112Weight: 240 gDimensions: 220 x 142 x 16 mm
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Every page of The Cat Prince brought me gladsome joy. Pedersen has the astonishing power of finding the astonishing in every moment that deserves a raised glass. This celebration of life is partly achieved through his humorous way with words that constantly made me laugh out!Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness,an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection. It's poetry to intoxicate. Just sublime.A brilliant book that guards its innocence with open armsThis laser focused collection of poetry by Michael Pedersen will gut you like a fish and smash your heart in. Searingly specific,exquisite and requisite. I relished reading every tiny morsel of itEndlessly boyishly playful,defiantly un-macho and un-afraid to be daftIf the alphabet is a piano keyboard then Michael Pedersen plays it with the confidence and panache of a jazz improviser who knows that every note can have the potential to change someone's life. Be amazed by this bookOpen-hearted,gut-wrenching and yet elegiac,these poems pack a hefty emotional punch. Michael Pederson's poems display a huge vocabulary for love,love in all its many forms and guises. These poems chart the journey from boyhood to manhood,the highs and the lows,the losses and the gains,always working their way towards an essential,emotional truth
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