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With his exuberant and otherworldly poems, Roddy Lumsden has
quickly established himself among Britain's leading younger poets.
In his third book, the filmic tour de force of the title sequence,
by turns comic, tragic and fantastic, follows the twists in a maze
of madness, love and self-deception, from Edinburgh to Stoke
Newington via the Philippines. The collection's second half brings
together newer work with some favourite pieces which show why
Lumsden is such a popular reader on both the literary and
performance circuits.
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The Best British Poetry 2014 (Paperback)
Mark Ford; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Rachael Allen, Robert Anthony, Simon Armitage, …
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'The Best British Poetry 2014' presents the finest and most
engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the
past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of
current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet
explaining the inspiration for the poem.
Identity Parade presents new British and Irish poetry at a time of
great vibrancy and variety. It is the first anthology to
comprehensively represent the generation of poets who have emerged
since the mid-1990s. Eclectic, diverse and wide-ranging in scope,
the book fully reflects the climate of "the pluralist now". It
offers the work of 85 highly individual and distinctive talents
whose poems display the distinctive breadth of styles and
approaches characteristic of our current poetry. These writers are
prospering all over Britain and Ireland - from Shetland to
Aberystwyth, from Gravesend to Galway - as well as further afield.
Many new and undersung poets appear alongside this generation's
most celebrated names, and probably for the first time in any major
poetry anthology, more women writers than men are featured. All the
poets have either published first collections within the past 15
years or make their debut within the next year. Identity Parade is
as accessible to the new reader as to the aficionado, with each
poet introduced by a biographical note also covering their themes
and concerns, plus an author photograph. This is the essential
starting place for anyone interested in the poetry of here and now.
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 of
approaches: satire, listing, praise poems and a new form, the
'ripple poem', which develops the use of 'fuzzy' rhyme.
Two words, hope and doubt, dominate Not All Honey, the seventh full
collection by Roddy Lumsden. These awkward cousins appear
repeatedly as the poet 'fathoms the ingredient for happy' despite a
tendency for the 'terrific melancholy' which named his last book.
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. The collection veers between sequence
and stand-alone poems, the recurring subjects including viscous
liquids, popular music, folkloric beasts and relationships and
friendships with younger people. This book also reproduces
Lumsden's acclaimed limited edition short collection The Bells of
Hope which, in 51 short and exuberant 'kernel poems', records the
poet's first ever year lived alone. Shortlisted for the Saltire
Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
So Glad I'm Me was Roddy Lumsden's tenth collection, and sadly
turned out to be the last book he published. In these haunting
poems he returned to familiar themes in his work: the trials of
oneness versus twoness, the seduction of small calamities, and vice
versa. And the everyday mysteries, of running water, salt and
sugar, roller-skates and back-up flats. So Glad I'm Me also
contains many 'conflation poems' where he has knocked the square
peg of one subject through the round hole of another, often
music-related. There are poems here about many songs and musicians,
ranging from cult artists like Alex Chilton and Robin Holcomb to
big names like Elvis and Morrissey. As ever, he relishes unusual
words (nestlecock, twofer, farnesol) and interesting, taut forms,
alongside a new strand of mid-length, discursive pieces in the
spirit of Chicagoan poets Albert Goldbarth and Marianne Boruch. So
Glad I'm Me was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and
the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018.
Roddy Lumsden was one of Britain's liveliest and most inventive
poets of recent times. From the formal, frenetic debut Yeah Yeah
Yeah, through the playful wit and cynicism of The Book of Love, to
the 'magnificent song to himself' of Roddy Lumsden is Dead, this
retrospective of his earlier work shows how his poetic journey was
eventful, fuelled by his fascination with the intrigues of men and
women and the short steps from real life to folklore to the
surreal. Mischief Night brought together the best work from Roddy
Lumsden's three previous collections, as well as a whole new
collection, The Drowning Man. It also contains poems from his
pamphlet The Bubble Bride and the previously uncollected sonnet
sequence Cavoli Riscaldati. It was followed by four later
collections. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
"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.
Roddy Lumsden is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets
writing in Britain today. His fifth collection sees him extending
the range of his poetry, straying into denser and more musical
territory, as well as sticking with the form and wit which typifies
his earlier work. In "Third Wish Wasted" he invents and tries out
various unusual and inventive forms such as charismatics, overlays
and relegated narratives. There are poems composed on a top fashion
shoot, inspired by travels in the USA and, as ever, he picks apart
the problems between men and women.
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The Best British Poetry 2015 (Paperback)
Emily Berry; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Aria Misha Aber, Astrid Alben, Rachael Allen, …
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Long-listed for a Saboteur Award 2016: Best Anthology"Your
indispensable guide to the poetry of these islands, now in its
fifth year"The Best British Poetry presents the finest and most
engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the
past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of
current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet
explaining the inspiration for the poem.Featuring: Aria Misha Aber,
Astrid Alben, Rachael Allen, Janette Ayachi, Tara Bergin, Crispin
Best, Amy Blakemore, Sarah Boulton, Kit Buchan, Sam Buchan-Watts,
Miles Burrows, Niall Campbell, Vahni Capildeo, Kayo Chingonyi,
Sophie Collins, Claire Crowther, Paula Cunningham, Jesse Darling,
Patricia Debney, Ian Duhig, Joe Dunthorne, Francine Elena, Inua
Ellams, Andrew Elliott, Victoria Field, Annie Freud, Matthew
Gregory, David Hart, Selima Hill, Sarah Howe, Kathleen Jamie, Tom
Jenks, Luke Kennard, Amy Key, Kate Kilalea, Caleb Klaces, Zaffar
Kunial, Daisy Lafarge, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Dorothy Lehane, Fran
Lock, Adam Lowe, Chris McCabe, Amy McCauley, Alex MacDonald, Andrew
McMillan, Kathryn Maris, Sophie Mayer, Kim Moore, Salah Niazi,
Jeremy Over, Bobby Parker, Rebecca Perry, Holly Pester, Heather
Phillipson, Padraig Regan, Sam Riviere, Sophie Robinson, Jessica
Schouela, Stephen Sexton, Penelope Shuttle, Hannah Silva, Marcus
Slease, Greta Stoddart, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Rebecca Tamas, Jack
Underwood, Mark Waldron, Megan Watkins, Karen McCarthy Woolf and
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
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The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Paperback)
Roddy Lumsden, Eloise Stonborough; Contributions by Rachael Allen, Dan Barrow, Jack Belloli, …
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The Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of
British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets embrace
new technologies such as blogs, social networking and webzines to
meet, mentor, influence and publish their own work and others'.
Some 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 on first collections. This is a chance to encounter the poets
who will dominate UK poetry in years to come.
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The Best British Poetry 2012 (Paperback, New)
Sasha Dugdale; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, Tara Bergin, …
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The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging
poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year.
The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK
poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining
the inspiration for the poem. An indispensable guide to British
poetry and a must-have purchase for anyone interested in the art,
from newcomers to the most experienced professional and all
creative writing students working in English.
"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 will
be familiar to those who have seen similar annual selections made
in other countries such as Ireland, Australia and especially the
US, where the equivalent annual book is a popular yet controversial
landmark in each year's literary calendar. At a time when print
journals still retain their significance and popularity and when
new sites are flourishing on the web, this book offers a snapshot
of current poetry practices in the country by offering a diverse
selection of excellent poems.
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