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Lumsden, Roderick (Roddy) Chalmers, 1966-2020 (Scottish poet)

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Roddy Lumsden was born in St Andrew in 1966. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and the School of Scottish Studies, while Hamish Henderson was still teaching there. He was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 1991 and an Arts Council writer's bursary in 1994. His work has appeared in Faber and Faber Poetry Introduction 8, Dream State - the New Scottish poets, the Gregory Anthology 91-93 and elsewhere. In 1995, he became Writer in Residence for the City of Aberdeen.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Folder entitled "Ed[inburgh] Uni[versity]", 1987, 1994, 1995

 File — Box Coll-2126: Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2126/10
Scope and Contents Three letters to Roddy Lumsden: from W. W. Robson, Masson Professor of English Literature, dated 15 June 1987 thanking Lumsden for his entry for the Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize, although it was awarded to someone else; from Kathryn MacLean, publicist at Polygon, dated 5 January 1994 asking Lumsden if he would read from the book Dream State at an event in Edinburgh; and a reminder from the University of Edinburgh Library about overdue borrowed books, dated 6 July...
Dates: 1987, 1994, 1995
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Roddy Lumsden

Folder entitled "Soc[iety] of Authors", 1991, 1994

 File — Box Coll-2126: Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2126/11
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Press release from the Society of Authors concerning the awards of several literary prizes in 1991, including the Eric Gregory award which Roddy Lumsden won that year. Also includes a letter from the Society of Authors to Lumsden, dated 24 June 1994, sending him his due for his work in the Society's anthology of Eric Gregory.

Dates: 1991, 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Roddy Lumsden

Poem drafts, 1990s

 File — Box Coll-2126: Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2126/4
Scope and Contents Two spiral ring binders containing drafts of poems (typed). The first poems of each binder are "The Ultimate Curve" and "Seat Still Warm". No date. One of the binders include a few enclosures: two photographs ("Roddy in a pub with Anna Rowse", and "Roddy and Sinead at Edinburg Graduation Aug. 1997"), a loose A4 page with "Raw anagrams of Roderick Chalmers Lumsden" (typed), an invitation from the Scottish Cultural Press to the publication of further volumes in the Scottish Contemporary Poets...
Dates: 1990s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Roddy Lumsden

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