- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd; First Edition edition (27 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852245093
- ISBN-13: 978-1852245092
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,148,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Roddy Lumsden's first collection, Yeah Yeah Yeah (available from Dufour), was shortlisted for both the Forward and Saltire prizes. These new poems eavesdrop on a half urban, half surreal world of ladies, men, and misfits, trying on roles and acting out fantasies. The Book of Love is a celebration of love in all its delightful perversity, whose characters include a randy actor, a vinegar addict, and couples courting in a cupboard, covered with marmalade. As voyeurs sneak into one poem, naturists streak across another, and there is the inevitable lurking presence of the poet's own (rich but square) alter ego.
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One of the freshest and most powerful collections to have come out in recent years. Its not just the wit which Lumsden uses to build line on line, but wit allied with a subtle yet profound delicacy of feeling, which results in poems of great immediacy and presence. A bravura performance, every bit as compelling as Farley's 'the boy from the chemist is here to see you' or Armitages 'Zoom'.
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