Michael Pedersen

Boy Friends

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY 'Dazzling . . . uncommonly romantic, irreverent and at times laugh out loud funny. A delight.' SHIRLEY MANSON 'Beautiful . . . send it to every friend you've ever loved.' CHARLOTTE CHURCH Friendships just might be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . . In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.

'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.' Juno Dawson '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' Daljit Nagra 'This 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 it' Shirley Manson 'Open-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' Jackie Kay 'If 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 book' Ian McMillan '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.

& Other Poems

The Cat Prince

Michael Pedersen is slowly building a reputation as a name to look out for, and has received plaudits from Stephen Fry and Irvine Welsh. As a spoken work poet, his readings are as memorable as they are witty, laced with an electric energy, as he recites from memory his highly engaging, accessible poetry. From NHS overdose clinics to overrun gardens, talking Cambodian treehouses to the teenage perversion of a young Scot on a French Exchange, Pedersen's poetry is a rich and fantastical feast of flavours, landscape and language. On the menu is everything from iced oysters and chateaubriand to pickled onions and Buckfast-soaked bread sticks. Like the man himself, these poems will tingle toes and raise eyebrows in equal measures.

Play With Me

Kevin Williamson

A follow up to the immensely popular #UntitledOne and #UntitledTwo. This year's anthology gives us more of the promising and established names in British poetry who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill. Many of the works are new, many are favourites read at the events; all are savoured, sublime, sumptuous voices within poetry already.

Neu! Reekie!

#UntitledThree

Anders Raastrup Kristensen

Når medarbejdere har indflydelse på deres arbejde, trives og præsterer de bedre. Det er dog en fejltagelse at tro, at ansvaret for arbejdet kan overlades til medarbejderne alene. Virksomhedens ledelse skal styrke og lede selvledelse, så det bliver en central del af virksomhedens kultur, at medarbejderne tager ansvar for deres arbejdsopgaver og for hinanden. Medarbejderne skal ikke basere deres valg og prioriteringer på individuelle følelser, men skal lede sig selv, så de understøtter virksomhedens grundlæggende forretning. Lederne skal holde fokus rettet på medarbejdernes resultater og sørge for, at der er sammenhæng mellem deres personlige forståelser af de konkrete arbejdsgaver og virksomhedens overordnede strategiske målsætning. Med ny forskning, værktøjer, modeller og cases fra danske virksomheder viser denne bog, hvordan vi skal ændre den måde, vi leder og arbejder sammen på. Det handler om at gøre selvledelse strategisk, så alle i virksomheden holder opmærksomheden fast rettet på virksomhedens forretning.

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