Name: So Glad I'm Me von Roddy Lumsden
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So Glad I'm Me Zusammenfassung

So Glad I'm Me Roddy Lumsden

So Glad I'm Me was Roddy Lumsden's tenth collection, and sadly turned out to be the last book he published. In these haunting poems he returned to familiar themes in his work: the trials of oneness versus twoness, the seduction of small calamities, and vice versa. And the everyday mysteries, of running water, salt and sugar, roller-skates and back-up flats. So Glad I'm Me also contains many 'conflation poems' where he has knocked the square peg of one subject through the round hole of another, often music-related. There are poems here about many songs and musicians, ranging from cult artists like Alex Chilton and Robin Holcomb to big names like Elvis and Morrissey. As ever, he relishes unusual words (nestlecock, twofer, farnesol) and interesting, taut forms, alongside a new strand of mid-length, discursive pieces in the spirit of Chicagoan poets Albert Goldbarth and Marianne Boruch. So Glad I'm Me was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018.

So Glad I'm Me Bewertungen

This is poetry as an extreme sport, a whole world of shifting ideas with people dead and alive dropping in, whispering in your ear, or just walking right through, bold as brass. With such courage, beauty and complexity, its no surprise that this, Lumsdens tenth collection, was shortlisted title for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. -- Alison Craig * The Bottle Imp *
Soul-bearing, heartfelt work that demands serious attention... -- Tristram Fane Saunders * The Daily Telegraph [on So Glad I'm Me] *

Über Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden (1966-2020) was born in St Andrews, and lived in Edinburgh for many years before moving to London in 1998. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (1997) was shortlisted for Forward and Saltire prizes. His second collection The Book of Love (2000), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His later collections were Third Wish Wasted (2009), Terrific Melancholy (2011), Not All Honey (2014), which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award, and So Glad I'm Me (2017), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018. His anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2010. He was a freelance writer and editor, also specialising in quizzes and word puzzles, and represented Scotland twice on BBC Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz. He also held several residencies, including ones with the City of Aberdeen, St Andrews Bay Hotel, and as poet-in-residence to the music industry when he co-wrote The Message, a book on poetry and pop music (Poetry Society, 1999). His other books include Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia, lists and curious words (Chambers Harrap, 2004).

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Sku

GOR008703011

ISBN 13

9781780373706

ISBN 10

1780373708

Titel

So Glad I'm Me Roddy Lumsden

Autor

Roddy Lumsden

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Datum

2017-09-28

Anzahl der Seiten

104

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