In his tenth collection, Roddy Lumsden returns to familiar themes in his work: the trials of oneness versus twoness, the seduction of small calamities. Lighter and less inward-looking than his other recent collections, So Glad I'm Me was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018.
Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes both physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring history's advances - changeless and changeful. Meanwhile, in the lengthy title-poem, an actor's reluctant crush on a younger colleague leads him to look back on life from middle age, while the poet himself does the same in a sequence about his t...
The Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets have used new technologies such as blogs, social networking and webzines to meet, mentor, influence and publish each other. Some of the poets here were winners of the Foyle young poet awards when at school. Some have published pamphlets in series such as tall-lighthouse Pilot and Faber New Poets. All of them are working away o...
The Best British Poetry 2011" presents the finest and most engaging poems found in British-based literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry, including lyric, formal and experimental poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet themselves, explaining the inspiration for the poem and why they decided to write the poem in that form. The format of the book wi...
In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating himself in an effort to rediscover his own identity. Four months later, a late night conversation led to a radical experiment that would see him return to writing with a daring project. This book is that extraordinary work.
Roddy Lumsden is one of the most inventive poets writing today, always keen to explore and invent forms and to challenge the musical limits of language. Not All Honey was his seventh collection, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
Third Wish Wasted is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns celebratory, humorous, and beguiling, and there are bittersweet contemplations of youth, beauty, and fame.
Identity Parade is the first anthology of the new generation of British and Irish poets who have emerged since the mid-1990s. It is the successor to Bloodaxe's New Poetry (1993) which was the first anthology to represent the so-called "New Generation Poets" who emerged in the 1980s and 90s (the generation of Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy).
RODDY LUMSDEN is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets writing in Britain today. His first collection was shortlisted for the Forward and Saltire prizes, and his second for the T.S. Eliot Prize. This collection brings together the best work from his three previous collections, as well as a whole new collection. "The Drowning Man.
