Biography

Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden (1966 – 2020) was born in St. Andrews to working class parents who instilled in him an early love of reading. He spent the later years of his life in London where he taught at the Poetry School. He published a number of poetry collections with Mischief Night: New and Selected Poems appearing in 2004. His last collection So Glad I’m Me (2017) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.

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