Product Description: 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. The collection veers between sequence and stand-alone poems, the recurring subjects including viscous liquids, popular music, folkloric beasts, relationships, and friendships with younger people...read more

Product Description: "The Best British Poetry 2011" presents the finest and most engaging poems found in British-based literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry, including lyric, formal and experimental poetry...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

This title takes a look at the world of reference and trivia. It contains facts and wacky lists such as: 'Long live the King' - did you know that the peony is the king of flowers; 'Mime, the great Healer' - a look at proverbs which remain true when they are changed by one letter.

Product Description: The Anvil New Poets series has built up a reputation for introducing ground-breaking work from the best new poets. The first two volumes featured the first work published in book form by poets such as Kate Clanchy, Colette Bryce, Alice Oswald, Richard Price and Mimi Khalvati...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)