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

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Two portrait photographs of Roddy Lumsden dated 1 August 1995, and negatives. Newspapers: bon accord (from Aberdeen City Council) September 1995 with an article on Lumsden entitled "The Bard of Aberdeen", p. 6; Press and Journal 28 July 1995; Aberdeen Herald & Post. 5 August 1995, with a photo and a short article on Lumsden on the front page.

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Newspapers, magazines (The List Dec. 1994 - Jan. 1995, Private Eyes 21 Oct. 1994 and 13 Jan. 1995), and crosswords.

Scope and Contents This is collection consists of the papers of Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden, dating mostly from his time in Edinburgh from mid-1980s to mid-1990s. It includes poetry (typed and handwritten), short stories, professional and personal correspondence, photographs, printed ephemera relating to poetry events in Edinburgh, and trinkets he would collect. The poetry material mostly proceeds from his first publication Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 1997), and from a privately...

Scope and Contents Five photographs of Roddy Lumsden and "Becky" [Rebecca Baxter] at Lumsden's parents' house in St Andrews, dated 21 February 1987; photobooth photograph of Lumsden and Baxter; black-and-white photograph of a child looking at a toys display; "photo collage" of Paris; small booklet containing ID photographs of Lumsden as well as cards and tickets (late 1980s); Lumsden's Edinburg University matriculation card (1985-86); Lumsden's half fare Fife bus pass (1986); Rebecca Baxter's member card for...

Scope and Contents Material relating to Roddy Lumsden's life, perhaps gathered on the occasion of his funerals in 2020. Includes: photographs of him throughout his life (as a baby, at school, as a child, as a young adult, as a professional writer; many photographs also include his family, his friends, his former girlfriend); school material (photograph of Roddy as a child receiving a prize for the Guardbridge Competition, and prize certificate, 1974; Scottish Certificate of Education, 1983; Certificate of...

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...

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Folder of handwritten and typewritten poetry by Roddy Lumsden. The file also includes a copy of a newspaper article about Imogen Mallais-Scott, loose notes, postcards stuck on two A4 pages, leaflets, and empty envelopes.

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Notebook entitled "Roddy / Carrick - Poetry - Early 1984" containing manuscript poetry, and bundles of typed poems on A4 papers, undated. Also includes a photocopy of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, and a reporter's notepad with handwritten notes.

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Folder of typewritten poetry by Roddy Lumsden, including poems entitled "Judgement", "Alone in the Hawaiian Lounge", "Detox", "What Was Missing", "Like Achilles", "Quoad Sacra", and many more. Also includes a contents list for "Let a fat Man Through".

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Typescript and manuscript poems: "Sweet infancy", "In What Happens", "Having Sleepwalked". Also include a list of audio tracks(?), a typescript entitled "Moments: 4" with a pencil signature "F Gallagher Bellshill", and a leaflet for an event "four award-winning Scottish poets" at The Square Centre on Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, Tuesday 30 August [no year - could be 1988, 1994].