With his exuberant and otherworldly poems, Roddy Lumsden has quickly established himself among Britain's leading younger poets. In his third book, the filmic tour de force of the title sequence, by turns comic, tragic and fantastic, follows the twists in a maze of madness, love and self-deception, from Edinburgh to Stoke Newington via the Philippines. The collection's second half brings together newer work with some favourite pieces which show why Lumsden is such a popular reader on both the literary and performance circuits.