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Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar , or National Poet of Scotland, [ 3 ] and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011.
At the opening of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh on 9 October 2004, Liz Lochhead read a poem written for the occasion by Morgan, titled "Poem for the Opening of the Scottish Parliament". She was announced as Morgan's successor as Scots Makar in January 2011.
The generation of poets that grew up in the postwar period included Douglas Dunn, Tom Leonard, and Liz Lochhead. The 1980s and 1990s saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets who became leading figures on the UK stage including Don Paterson , Robert Crawford , Carol Ann Duffy , Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay .
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is a 1987 play by Liz Lochhead.It explores the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Stuart.It is primarily written to be from a female point of view, and is considered to be Lochhead's most successful and critically acclaimed play. [1]
Kathleen Jamie has written poems for the Cop26 summit, the opening of Parliament and about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Scotland’s outgoing national poet will leave ‘powerful legacy ...
Tom Leonard (born 1944), works in the Glaswegian dialect, pioneering the working class voice in Scottish poetry. [55] Liz Lochhead (born 1947) also explored the lives of working-class people of Glasgow, but added an appreciation of female voices within a sometimes male dominated society. [54]
The Makar is the national poet of Scotland which was established in February 2004 by the Scottish Government and supported by Creative Scotland.The incumbent Makar serves a maximum term of three years which is non–renewable, and has overall responsibility for the promotion of literacy, poetry and writing across the country, as well as producing annual reports for both the Scottish Government ...
Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selected Poems 1982, New Selected Poems 1995) [18] Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead [18] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom; Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring [18] George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70; Derek Mahon, Lives.