Third Wish Wasted

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. Roddy Lumsden is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets writing in Britain today. His fifth collection strays into denser and more musical territory, as well as sticking with the form and wit which typifies his earlier work.