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“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME (Bloodaxe, 2017)
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
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“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME (Bloodaxe, 2017)
7/7
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
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“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME (Bloodaxe, 2017)
7/7
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
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“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME (Bloodaxe, 2017)
7/7
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
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“This is punch-the-air poetry, the knowing in that feeling place in your gut that someone understands and can put it in words so much better than your own”
—Alison Craig reviews Roddy Lumsden’s SO GLAD I’M ME (Bloodaxe, 2017)
7/7
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/so-glad-im-me-by-roddy-lumsden/
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From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
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From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
6/7
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From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
6/7
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From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
6/7
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From 2017: Roddy Lumsden talks about his work & his collection SO GLAD I’M ME, published by Bloodaxe Books & shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize.
6/7
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Ambition knocks – a tropical disease.
My voice slows up and comes at you
as if through a wave of coconut milk…—Roddy Lumsden, “The Drowning Man”
from POETRY magazine, June 20045/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42182
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Ambition knocks – a tropical disease.
My voice slows up and comes at you
as if through a wave of coconut milk…—Roddy Lumsden, “The Drowning Man”
from POETRY magazine, June 20045/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42182
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Ambition knocks – a tropical disease.
My voice slows up and comes at you
as if through a wave of coconut milk…—Roddy Lumsden, “The Drowning Man”
from POETRY magazine, June 20045/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42182
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Ambition knocks – a tropical disease.
My voice slows up and comes at you
as if through a wave of coconut milk…—Roddy Lumsden, “The Drowning Man”
from POETRY magazine, June 20045/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42182
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Ambition knocks – a tropical disease.
My voice slows up and comes at you
as if through a wave of coconut milk…—Roddy Lumsden, “The Drowning Man”
from POETRY magazine, June 20045/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42182
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I’m trying to string together three words
which I hate more than I hate myself:
𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘺 and … when I realise
that words no longer count for much at all…—Roddy Lumsden, “My Pain”
from MISCHIEF NIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2004)4/7
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/mischief-night-782
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I’m trying to string together three words
which I hate more than I hate myself:
𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘺 and … when I realise
that words no longer count for much at all…—Roddy Lumsden, “My Pain”
from MISCHIEF NIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2004)4/7
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/mischief-night-782
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I’m trying to string together three words
which I hate more than I hate myself:
𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘺 and … when I realise
that words no longer count for much at all…—Roddy Lumsden, “My Pain”
from MISCHIEF NIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2004)4/7
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/mischief-night-782
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I’m trying to string together three words
which I hate more than I hate myself:
𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘺 and … when I realise
that words no longer count for much at all…—Roddy Lumsden, “My Pain”
from MISCHIEF NIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2004)4/7
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/mischief-night-782
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I’m trying to string together three words
which I hate more than I hate myself:
𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘺 and … when I realise
that words no longer count for much at all…—Roddy Lumsden, “My Pain”
from MISCHIEF NIGHT (Bloodaxe, 2004)4/7
https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/mischief-night-782
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You bastards! It’s all sherbet, and folly
makes you laugh like mules. Chances dance
off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones…
—Roddy Lumsden, “The Young”
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20083/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51937/the-young
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You bastards! It’s all sherbet, and folly
makes you laugh like mules. Chances dance
off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones…
—Roddy Lumsden, “The Young”
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20083/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51937/the-young
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You bastards! It’s all sherbet, and folly
makes you laugh like mules. Chances dance
off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones…
—Roddy Lumsden, “The Young”
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20083/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51937/the-young
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You bastards! It’s all sherbet, and folly
makes you laugh like mules. Chances dance
off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones…
—Roddy Lumsden, “The Young”
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20083/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51937/the-young
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You bastards! It’s all sherbet, and folly
makes you laugh like mules. Chances dance
off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones…
—Roddy Lumsden, “The Young”
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20083/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51937/the-young
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Mischief Night – Roddy Lumsden’s Return
12 June, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh – freeIn 1997, Roddy Lumsden launched his first full-length collection, YEAH YEAH YEAH. The event heralded the arrival of one of poetry’s most mercurial talents, as Roddy proved over seven more collections prior to his untimely death in 2020. 29 years on, his friends & fans return to celebrate what would have been his 60th birthday
2/7
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-night-roddy-lumsdens-return-tickets-1987736447222
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Mischief Night – Roddy Lumsden’s Return
12 June, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh – freeIn 1997, Roddy Lumsden launched his first full-length collection, YEAH YEAH YEAH. The event heralded the arrival of one of poetry’s most mercurial talents, as Roddy proved over seven more collections prior to his untimely death in 2020. 29 years on, his friends & fans return to celebrate what would have been his 60th birthday
2/7
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-night-roddy-lumsdens-return-tickets-1987736447222
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Mischief Night – Roddy Lumsden’s Return
12 June, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh – freeIn 1997, Roddy Lumsden launched his first full-length collection, YEAH YEAH YEAH. The event heralded the arrival of one of poetry’s most mercurial talents, as Roddy proved over seven more collections prior to his untimely death in 2020. 29 years on, his friends & fans return to celebrate what would have been his 60th birthday
2/7
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-night-roddy-lumsdens-return-tickets-1987736447222
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Mischief Night – Roddy Lumsden’s Return
12 June, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh – freeIn 1997, Roddy Lumsden launched his first full-length collection, YEAH YEAH YEAH. The event heralded the arrival of one of poetry’s most mercurial talents, as Roddy proved over seven more collections prior to his untimely death in 2020. 29 years on, his friends & fans return to celebrate what would have been his 60th birthday
2/7
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-night-roddy-lumsdens-return-tickets-1987736447222
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Mischief Night – Roddy Lumsden’s Return
12 June, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh – freeIn 1997, Roddy Lumsden launched his first full-length collection, YEAH YEAH YEAH. The event heralded the arrival of one of poetry’s most mercurial talents, as Roddy proved over seven more collections prior to his untimely death in 2020. 29 years on, his friends & fans return to celebrate what would have been his 60th birthday
2/7
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mischief-night-roddy-lumsdens-return-tickets-1987736447222
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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyondhis understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20081/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyondhis understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20081/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyondhis understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20081/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyondhis understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20081/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful
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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round
an oxter or early man in the cave mouth
watching rain-drifts pour from beyondhis understanding…
—“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵
from POETRY magazine, Dec 20081/7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51938/the-beautiful