Books by Roddy Lumsden

In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating himself in an effort to rediscover his own identity. Four months later, a late night conversation led to a radical experiment that would see him return to writing with a daring project. This book is that extraordinary work.

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. Not All Honey was his seventh collection, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.

Roddy Lumsden's fifth collection 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.

New collection by leading Scottish poet.

Roddy Lumsden is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets writing in Britain today. 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', his poetic journey has already been eventful.