A Sunday Times bestselling writer whose live readings are not to be missed shines a ridiculous and poetic light upon all the things we’ve been taught to hate and might learn to love again.

Expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry as Hollie McNish, supported by her real-life partner and fellow performance poet Michael Pederson, brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and newborns, clocks, cocks, volvos and all the other things we hate to love and love to hate.

Hollie McNish is an author and the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Slug.

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish author. His prose debut, Boy Friends was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, his most recent, The Cat Prince, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023.

Suitable for ages 14+

Presented with support from Scottish Books International.