Madras College, St Andrews
University of Edinburgh
Roderick Chalmers "Roddy" Lumsden (28 May 1966 – 10 January 2020) was a Scottish poet, writing mentor and quizzer. He was born in St Andrews and educated at Madras College and the University of Edinburgh. He published seven collections of poetry, a number of pamphlets, and a collection of trivia. He also edited a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), and The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt Publishing, 2011). His collections The Book of Love (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) and So Glad I'm Me (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Roderick Chalmers "Roddy" Lumsden (28 May 1966 – 10 January 2020) was a Scottish poet, writing mentor and quizzer. He was born in St Andrews and educated...
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publications include Dan Fante's Corksucker, Richard Adams' Daniel, RoddyLumsden'sRoddyLumsden is Dead, Ben Myers' The Book Of Fuck and Tony O'Neill's Digging...
2000 Edward Platt Leadville Winner Julia Leigh The Hunter Finalist RoddyLumsden The Book of Love Finalist Cole Moreton Hungry for Home Leaving the Blaskets:...
having featured work by Maurice Riordan, Hugo Williams, Daljit Nagra and RoddyLumsden, among others. The press has established itself as a leading light on...
Foreign Affairs (1964–1970) and member of the House of Lords (1964–2015). RoddyLumsden, 53, poet. 12 January Jackie Brown, 84, Scottish boxer, Commonwealth...
Star Wars). Bernard Joly, 85, French politician, Senator (1995–2004). RoddyLumsden, 53, Scottish poet, heart attack. Guido Messina, 89, Italian racing...
Little Pippa Little Liz Lochhead John Logan Iain Lom John Longmuir RoddyLumsden David Lyndsay Agnes Lyon John Lyon Henry Francis Lyte George MacBeth...
Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon Eric Gregory Award: RoddyLumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay Guardian Fiction...
Bloodaxe's Identity Parade (New British and Irish Poets), edited by RoddyLumsden, in 2010 His third collection, Planet-Struck was published by Anvil...
Jonathan Davidson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don Paterson, John Wells 1991: RoddyLumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay 1992: Jill Dawson...
Hardi (exiled from Kurdistan) Tracey Herd Matthew Hollis Joanne Limburg RoddyLumsden Esther Morgan Helen Ivory Stephanie Norgate Caitríona O'Reilly Leanne...
Forward Books of Poetry, as well as The Best British Poetry, edited by RoddyLumsden. Reviewers of his work have variously described him as "a poet of both...
poets who performed on the New Blood UK Tour of 1997, the others being RoddyLumsden, Julia Copus, Tracey Herd and Eleanor Brown. Holland was the Warwick...
to write down the poem". His 2006 work, Weightless, was described by RoddyLumsden as a “modern blues". A major retrospective of his work, Goin' Down Slow:...
Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010), edited By RoddyLumsden. Emery is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing...
2009), Identity Parade: New Poets from Britain and Ireland (edited by RoddyLumsden, 2010) and Dear World & Everyone In It: new poetry in the UK (edited...
Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "RoddyLumsden's Identity Parade and Forward's Poems of the Decade. Read's first collection...
Joanna Cherry, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer 28 May – RoddyLumsden, poet (died 2020) 7 August – David Cairns, Scottish Labour politician...
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