Roddy Lumsden
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Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet. Lumsden was born in St Andrews. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the Best First Collection section. His second collection The Book of Love was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Roddy Lumsden is Dead followed in 2001, then Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems which was a PBS Recommendation. He lives in London where he teaches at City University and Morley College. He has done editing work on several prize-winning poetry collections and is currently editing the Pilot series of chapbooks by poets under 30 for Tall Lighthouse. He is organiser and host of the monthly reading series BroadCast in London.
Lumsden is former Vice Chairman of the Poetry Society of Great Britain. He was awarded an Arts Council of England International Fellowship at the Banff Centre in Ontario in 2001 and has also carried out several residency projects, including being poet-in-residence to the music industry and in a five-star hotel and golf resort. He works as a puzzle and quiz writer for BBC MindGames magazine.
[edit] Published works
Poetry
- Elsewhere Perhaps Later (privately published, 1995)
- Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 1997)
- The Book of Love (Bloodaxe, 2000)
- Roddy Lumsden is Dead (Wrecking Ball Press, 2001)
- The Bubble Bride (St Andrews Bay, 2003)
- Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004)
- Super Try Again (Donut Press, 2007)
As editor
- The Message (Poetry Society, 1999, co-ed with Stephen Trousse)
- Anvil New Poets 3 (Anvil Press, 2001, co-ed with Hamish Ironside)
Other
- Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia lists and curious words (Chambers, 2004)
