Roddie writes in Scots and English, lives in Dundee, is a founder member of the Wyvern Poets, is currently, chair of Nethergate Writers and also is the last original member from its founding in 2005. He is a former immunology researcher/academic, technical sales representative, FE lecturer, freelance tutor and lecturer, bar manager, landscape gardener and has been working as a counsellor for the past seventeen years.
He also enjoys: hillwalking, badminton, ju-jitsu, golf, gardening, painting and rock climbing
He has written poetry, short stories, a children’s fantasy novel, a novella, one play and is working on a novel composed of interlinked short stories, set in a Canadian bar full of picaresque characters,during the nuclear war-fear-filled, early eighties.
His stories favour the anti-hero and underdog in their struggles against the establishment. His poetry is inspired by natural events and tries to convey the wonder he feels for these phenomena by imagistic techniques and impressionistic painting with words. He often uses physical landscape as an analogy for the internal emotional landscape. Poetry is also his way of protesting injustice and governmental incompetence.
Roddie has published short stories in eleven Nethergate Writers anthologies since 2006, and in nine Wyvern Poetpamphlets. Recently, his poetry and prose have appeared in: Tether’s End Magazine 2, Lallans, 89 & 91, ‘Seagate III’, New Writing Scotland 35, Northwords Now 36, Writers Cafe Magazine 16, BlueHouseJournal 5, Poetry Scotland 104, the Scottish Book Trust’s ‘Rebel’ (100,000 copies of which were distributed free around Scotland), the Scottish Book Trust’s ‘Hope’, The Herald on Sunday, 29/1/23 and in the Edinburgh Literary Salon anthology, ‘Golden Moments’, Merchiston Publishing, (2023).