#UntitledOne: Neu! Reekie!

Neu! Reekie!

by Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson

#UntitledOne: Neu! Reekie!

£12.99

‘Neu! Reekie! dismantles the structures and snobberies dividing high and low art – art is for everyone’  – Skinny

‘Neu! Reekie! describes itself as ‘a monthly headfuck of poetry, animation and music. Edinburgh style.’ I’d have to agree. Kevin and Michael are possessed of a kind of friendly irreverence, an eye for the exceptional and a sense of curiosity as to what’ll happen if you throw everything into the melting pot’ – Skinny

‘Genre-crossing performance night led by Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson, incorporating spoken word, animation, drama, music and more’ – Timeout

A poetry anthology boasting some of the UK’s most exciting voices 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 – with the exception of Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap and Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit – who are ferocious forces within music and beyond.

Contributors include: Irvine Welsh, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lochhead, Ron Butlin and Tom Leonard; as well as younger blood such as: Jenni Fagan, Hollie McNish and William Letford. Accompanying the book is a 20 track compilation album, artists include: Jesus, Baby; Emelle;The Merrylees; Stanley Odd; TeenCanteen and Young Fathers.

Michael Pedersen is a poet, playwright and animateur with an electric reputation on the performance circuit and a prolific precedent of collaborations, having teamed up with some of the UK’s top musicians, film-makers and artists. He is widely published in magazines, journals, anthologies and e-zines, and a key creative within Dream Tower Productions. He’s also the lyricist for cult band Jesus, Baby! and has written short plays for various troupes including the National Theatre of Scotland. Michael’s collection, Play with Me, was published by Polygon in 2013.

Kevin Williamson is a writer, publisher, and activist, originally from Caithness. He is a Scottish socialist and republican and was an activist for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). He was also the architect of their radical drug policy, which included the legalisation of cannabis and the provision under the National Health Service of free synthetic heroin to addicts under medical supervision to combat the problems of drugs in working class communities. He wrote a regular weekly column, Rebel Ink, for the Scottish Socialist Voice. He is co-founder of Neu! Reekie!

The publishers acknowledge investment from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this book.