Roddy Lumsden
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Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews
. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other anthologies.
. He is organiser and host of the monthly reading series BroadCast in London. Since 2010, he has been Poetry Editor for Salt Publishing, for whom he is also the Series Editor of The Best British Poetry anthologies.
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 also works as a puzzle and quiz writer and a popular reference compiler and editor.
Lumsden 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 and, in 2009, then Third Wish Wasted, poems from which were awarded the Bess Hokin Prize by the Poetry Foundation. A sixth collection, Terrific Melancholy, was issued in 2011.
St Andrews
St Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....
. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other anthologies.
Background
He lives in London where he teaches for The Poetry School and independently. He has done editing work on several prize-winning poetry collections and the Pilot series of chapbooks by poets under 30 for Tall LighthouseTall Lighthouse
Tall Lighthouse is an independent publishing house in the UK, established in 1999 by Les Robinson. It publishes full collections of poetry, pamphlets, and the anthology City Lighthouse, a collection of poems by established and emerging poets alike, having featured work by Maurice Riordan, Hugo...
. He is organiser and host of the monthly reading series BroadCast in London. Since 2010, he has been Poetry Editor for Salt Publishing, for whom he is also the Series Editor of The Best British Poetry anthologies.
Lumsden is former Vice Chairman of the Poetry Society of Great Britain
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry".The Society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912...
. He was awarded an Arts Council of England International Fellowship at the Banff Centre
Banff Centre
The Banff Centre, formerly known as The Banff Centre for Continuing Education, is an arts, cultural, and educational institution and conference complex located in Banff, Alberta...
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 also works as a puzzle and quiz writer and a popular reference compiler and editor.
Lumsden received an Eric Gregory Award
Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
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
Poetry Book Society
The Poetry Book Society was founded by T. S. Eliot and friends in 1953. Each quarter the Society selects one recently published collection of poetry for its members. The Society also publishes the quarterly poetry journal Bulletin, and it administers the competition for the annual T. S. Eliot Prize...
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 and, in 2009, then Third Wish Wasted, poems from which were awarded the Bess Hokin Prize by the Poetry Foundation. A sixth collection, Terrific Melancholy, was issued in 2011.
Poetry collections
- Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 1997)
- The Book of Love (Bloodaxe, 2000)
- Roddy Lumsden is Dead (Wrecking Ball Press, 2001)
- Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004)
- Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe, 2009)
- Terrific Melancholy (Bloodaxe, 2011)
Pamphlets
- Elsewhere Perhaps Later (privately published, 1995)
- The Bubble Bride (St Andrews Bay, 2003)
- Super Try Again (Donut Press, 2007)
- The Bells of Hope (Penned in the Margins, due 2012)
As editor
- The Message (Poetry Society, 1999, co-ed with Stephen Trousse)
- Anvil New Poets 3 (Anvil Press, 2001, co-ed with Hamish Ironside)
- Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010)
- The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt, 2011)
- The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011, with Eloise Stonborough)
Other
- Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia lists and curious words (Chambers, 2004)
- Every Boy's Book of Knowledge (Prion, 2007, compiler and editor)
- Chambers Gigglossary (Chambers, 2008, contributor)