The Bells of Hope is a series of 51 poems, all of them in a short form Roddy Lumsden has developed, in which metaphor and truth swirl in one short and three long lines. Lyrical and curious, these poems, though stand-alone, collectively chart a time of change in the poet's life, delighting in unusual words and tumbling images, in poems whose titles run from A to Z and back to A. Printed in a hardback limited edition of 200. Each copy is numbered.