Hollie McNish

The title is still under-wraps but Hollie is back with a brand-new book tour in Autumn 2025.

With support from Michael Pedersen.

A Sunday Times bestselling author, chatter and poetry lover, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in her much-loved poetry as she reads from this brand-new collection about love, loss, wolves and warm morning croissants.

Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the gig.

Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published five further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum, and Slug and Lobster, both Sunday Times bestsellers. She loves writing.

Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber to rave reviews and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems — which won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and The Scottish National Book Awards, and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has attracted praise from the likes of: Stephen Fry, Shirley Manson, Jackie Kay, Irvine Welsh, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Sturgeon & many more. His debut novel (Muckle Flugga) was published by Faber in May 2025.