Terrific Melancholy

Name: Terrific Melancholy
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Roddy Lumsden

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. See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 31 May 2011
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852249083

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 Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His later collections were Third Wish Wasted (2009) Terrific Melancholy (2011) Not All Honey (2014) which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award and So Glad I'm Me (2017) shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018. His anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2010. He was a freelance writer and editor also specialising in quizzes and word puzzles and represented Scotland twice on BBC Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz. He also held several residencies including ones with the City of Aberdeen St Andrews Bay Hotel and as poet-in-residence to the music industry when he co-wrote The Message a book on poetry and pop music (Poetry Society 1999). His other books include Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia lists and curious words (Chambers Harrap 2004).