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    Scottish Poet Roddy Lumsden to read at Artpost

    Scottish Poet Roddy Lumsden to read at Artpost

    Presented by Artpost at Artpost

    September 20, 2010

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    Monday, Sept 20th 6 pm $5 donation at the door Please join us for this very special poetry reading by well-known Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden. Roddy has published five award-winning collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a now-famous generational anthology of new British and Irish poets, Identity Parade. Roddy Lumsden received an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, one of the UK’s biggest poetry prizes, 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 Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and, in 2009, his fifth collection Third Wish Wasted, poems from which were awarded the Bess Hokin Prize by the Poetry Foundation. Roddy Lumsden lives in London, England where he teaches creative writing for The Poetry School and edits the Pilot series of chapbooks by poets under 30 for Tall Lighthouse. A well-known figure on the live circuit, he is organiser and host of the monthly reading series BroadCast. In 2010, he was also appointed as Commissioning Editor for Salt Publishing.


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        Artpost

        216 W. Madison St.
        South Bend, IN 46601

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        Tickets: $5 suggested donation at the door

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        September 20, 2010

        Times:
        6:00 pm

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          Please call 574-287-6293 for assistance with wheelchair access.

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