Melt and Solve
Author(s): Roddy Lumsden
In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating hmiself 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. As the poet says, "The series of plaintive poems entertains the idea of sentimentality. It encourages fetishes, by which I mean repeated references and name dropping. It is 'hand on heart' stuff. Sweeping, indulgent last lines, often. Emotional, evoking the mood I found myself in as I recovered, solved."
Product Information
Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five 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. He lives in London where he teaches for The Poetry School.
General Fields
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- : Salt Publishing
- : Salt Publishing
- : 30 September 2015
- : 203mm X 127mm X 6mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 21 October 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 128
- : 821.914
- : Paperback
- : Roddy Lumsden