Yeah Yeah Yeah - Softcover

There are tremendous narrative poems, mysterious, lingering ones...and unforgettably realistic tales of melancholy sexual encounters... Lumsden is a brilliant vivisector and pathologist of the contemporary relationship...all we can ask for in poetry: contemplation, intelligence, stylistic beauty. Like a spreadsheet of a morality adventure, like perfectly articulated pain...a helpless celebration of Life's adventures. -- Alan Warner * The Scotsman *

Roddy Lumsden's first collection Yeah Yeah Yeah is a large and varied debut collection which uses the lives of lovers and losers, eavesdroppers and entertainers to explore romance, faith and last orders at the bar. The poems are formal but with a frantic edge; they are lyrical, but laced with a cruel streak and a measured dose of indulgence. Roddy Lumsden is concerned with how relationships shift and twist and restore an order, with how people meet and part. The poems range over weddings, revenge and phobias, beer, girls and the need `to get these answers right'. Yeah Yeah Yeah was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Now out of print, most of the poems in the book are included in Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (2004).