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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.
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 ...
Jacqueline Margaret Kay (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of ...
The generation of poets that grew up in the postwar period included Douglas Dunn, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead. The 1980s and 1990s saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Don Paterson , Robert Crawford , Carol Ann Duffy , Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay .
Editor, Selected Poems of Thomas Gray; Ted Hughes: Under the North Star [17] Editor, Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (see Plath, below) Peter Levi, Private Ground [17] Liz Lochhead, The Grimm Sisters [17] Christopher Logue, Ode to the Dodo [17] Michael Longley, Patchwork, [17] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom; Derek Mahon: Courtyards ...
He joined a group of new and distinctive authors, including Philip Hobsbaum, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, of whom Hobsbaum was the nucleus. [ 5 ] With Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, he became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow in 2001, [ 6 ] retiring in 2009. [ 1 ]
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]
Poetry portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Scottish poets . It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.