The Book of Love

by Roddy Lumsden

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.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Roddy Lumsden was a Scottish poet. He published seven collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other anthologies.

Reviews

[Leeza · Rating 3 out of 5]

mixed but these i liked: incident in a filing cupboard, because, carlisle, voyeur, against naturism, theft, scotoma, the man i could have been

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

a beautiful collection of poetry about love and loneliness and all the feelings that come with it