Play with Me

From Scottish National Health Service overdose clinics, overrun gardens, and talking Cambodian tree houses to the teenage perversion of a young Scot on a French exchange, Pedersen’s poetry is a rich and fantastical feast of flavors, landscape, and language. On the menu is everything from ice oysters and chateaubriand to pickled onions and Buckfast-soaked bread sticks. This charming collection of poetry is both pleasing and eyebrow-raising in equal measures.