Terrific Melancholy

Roddy Lumsden''s Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes, physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring our history''s advances – changeless, changeful. Meanwhile, in the lengthy title-poem, an actor''s reluctant crush on a younger colleague leads him to look back on life from middle age, while the poet ...