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Mischief night : new & selected poems / Roddy Lumsden.
Van Pelt Library PR6062.U454 M57 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lumsden, Roddy, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tarset : Bloodaxe, 2004.
- Summary:
- RODDY LUMSDEN is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets writing in Britain today. His first collection was shortlisted for the Forward and Saltire prizes, and his second for the T.S. Eliot Prize. This collection brings together the best work from his three previous collections, as well as a whole new collection. "The Drowning Man.
- Contents:
- The Drowning Man
- The Tremendous Few 14
- Charcoal Sketch 15
- What Love Cannot Do 16
- Miss Hollington's Notes 17
- Us 18
- Q 19
- Rain at Night 20
- The Knack 21
- The Waitresses 22
- Sorry 23
- Life Story 24
- Moments of Terror 25
- Fear of Music 26
- Second Prayer 28
- For Jesus 29
- Letter From an Admirer 30
- The Bath in Milk 31
- The Drowning Man 32
- Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night 33
- The Deaths of Imaginary Friends 34
- Moments of Pleasure 35
- Still 36
- Turning into Grizzly Street 37
- From the Valentine Studio 38
- Cover Versions 41
- On the Cusp of Virgo and Libra 42
- Specific Hunger 43
- Perfumes of Scotland 44
- Conspiracy Sketch 45
- True Believers 46
- Miss America 47
- One Acre Yard 48
- from The Bubble Bride (2003)
- Sang o' the Kittock's Loddie 50
- A Saltire 52
- Hotel Showers of the World 53
- The Kitchens: A Guided Tour 54
- On the Boat-slope 55
- The Bubble Bride 56
- Spent 57
- Lateral Vertigo 58
- Overhead in a Scottish Larder 59
- Lumsden Hotel 60
- Little Fife 61
- Evidence of Owls 62
- from Roddy Lumsden is Dead (2003)
- Roddy Lumsden Is Dead
- My Pain 65
- My Death 66
- My Funeral 66
- My Post-mortem 67
- My Reptilian Existence 68
- My True Love 68
- My Allegory 69
- My Early Years 69
- My Hormones 70
- My Dark Side 71
- My Last Supper 71
- My Complex 72
- My Water 73
- My National Stigma 73
- My Limbo 74
- My Face Not Fitting 75
- My Half-life 75
- My Sex Life 76
- My Ascent 77
- My Descent 77
- My Superstition 78
- My Luck 79
- My Reflection 79
- My Sickness 80
- My Performance 80
- My Realm of the Senses 81
- My Plea 81
- My Meeting with the Goddess 82
- My Prayer 84
- My Future 84
- My Solitude 85
- My Life 87
- My Pennyworth 88
- My Spring 88
- But Sweet
- The Consolation 90
- Weathergirl 90
- Priapus 91
- Higher Still 91
- The Shortcut 92
- Song 92
- Song 93
- Escher 93
- The Wish 94
- The Wager 94
- One Thing I Do Know 95
- Intramuros 95
- Simpatika 96
- The Drop of a Hat 96
- from The Book of Love (2000)
- Incident in a Filing Cupboard 98
- Because 99
- An Older Woman 100
- Love's Young Dream 101
- Piquant 102
- Always 103
- Marmalade 104
- The Twelfth Kind 105
- Lithium 106
- Voyeur 107
- For the Birds 108
- Against Naturism 109
- Troilism 111
- Proof 112
- Tricks for the Barmaid 113
- from Subject Matter 114
- The Beginning of the End 116
- Acid 117
- Scarlet 118
- An Outlying Station 119
- Athena 120
- Bellyful 121
- Solo 122
- Pagan 123
- Show and Tell 124
- Hobbledehoy 125
- The Man I Could Have Been 126
- Lullaby 128
- Cavoli Riscaldati
- St Andrews 131
- Grief 131
- Easter 132
- Vena Cava 132
- Heatwave 133
- Reading the Suddenlys 133
- Making a Mistake 134
- Encraty 134
- What Happened Next 135
- Transfiguration 135
- Square One 136
- Making a Comeback 136
- Digitalis 137
- Making a Getaway 137
- Abacus 138
- Halfway Across 138
- Compendium 139
- Harm's Way 139
- Making a Scene 140
- Elsewhere Perhaps Later 140
- Life Means Life 141
- Manila 141
- Ether 142
- What We Became 142
- from Yeah Yeah Yeah (1997)
- Then 144
- Sunday Morning 2.13 a.m. 145
- St Patrick's Day 146
- Manners 149
- Coming 150
- 364 151
- Yeah Yeah Yeah 152
- Prayer To Be with Mercurial Women 153
- Trespass 154
- On a Promise 155
- Noyade 156
- from St James Infirmly 157
- After Entomology 159
- Cardinal 160
- Infighting 161
- Noah 162
- August (and Nothing After) 163
- Rogation 164
- The World's End 165
- Lines to a Missionary 166
- Mercy 167
- Beach Ceilidh 168
- ITMA 169
- The Boy 170
- Roisin's Wolves 171
- The Ultimate Curve 172
- Vanishing 173
- The Answers 174.
- ISBN:
- 1852246723
- OCLC:
- 56456681
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