The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

The Cat Prince & Other Poems is a collection of poetry by Michael Pedersen that explores love, loss, friendship, cats, and careless joy. It is filled with raw and ribald language, exhibiting an emotionally charged, fantastical playground of language and lore. The poems reveal a poet at his bravest and most vulnerable, purring with affection and flashing its teeth before digging in its claws.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Winner of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection, 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.

Weight: 244g
Dimension: 143 x 223 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472156884