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Terrific Melancholy
Roddy Lumsden
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Description for Terrific Melancholy
Paperback. New collection by leading Scottish poet. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144. 64 pages. New collection by leading Scottish poet. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 9. Weight: 144.
Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes, physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring our history's advances - changeless, 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 during travels in the USA. This is Lumsden's sixth collection and it also contains a miscellany of new poems which display the writer's acclaimed inventiveness with form and structure and his breadth ... Read more
Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes, physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring our history's advances - changeless, 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 during travels in the USA. This is Lumsden's sixth collection and it also contains a miscellany of new poems which display the writer's acclaimed inventiveness with form and structure and his breadth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249083
SKU
V9781852249083
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Ref
99-81
About Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden (1966-2020) was born in St Andrews, and lived in Edinburgh for many years before moving to London in 1998. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (1997) was shortlisted for Forward and Saltire prizes. His second collection The Book of Love (2000), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Mischief Night: New & Selected ... Read more
Reviews for Terrific Melancholy
There is a level of talent that will ransom any project in any school. On the one hand, it will be interesting to see where Lumsden goes next; on the other, he's so good that it hardly matters.
D.H. Tracy
Poetry
Although the verse is hopping with linguistic antics, the foci of the language are music and ... Read more
D.H. Tracy
Poetry
Although the verse is hopping with linguistic antics, the foci of the language are music and ... Read more