The Book of Love

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.

Acid
Against Naturism
Always
Athena
Because
The Beginning Of The End
Bellyful
The Boyhood Of Fulcanelli
Carlisle
Census
Chinese Water Torture
Class
Communion
Cryptozoology
East Of Eden
Edinburgh
For The Birds
Glasgow
Hobbledhoy
Hogmanay
In The Wedding Museum
Incident In A Filing Cupboard
Lithium
Love's Young Dream
Lullaby
Makeover
The Man I Could Have Been
Marmalade
An Older Woman
An Outlying Station
Pagan
Piquant
Proof
Response
Scarlet
Scotoma
Show And Tell
Solo
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Subject Matter: Modern Studies
Sweltering
Tcalss
Theft
Tricks For The Barmaid
Troilism
The Twelfth Kind
Voyeur
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®