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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.
The Cholmondeley Awards (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.
As of 2022, the winner in each category receives an award created by artist Simon Baker of Evergreen Studios, based in Inverness; the winners of each literary award receive a cash prize of £2,000, while the winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year is given a further £4,000. [5]
The multi-award winning poet’s work spans four decades, and she is the fourth person to be appointed the Scottish Makar since the role was created in 2004, having succeeded Jackie Kay, Liz ...
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 ...
2011 in poetry Tomas Tranströmer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Liz Lochhead succeeds Edwin Morgan as The Scots Makar; Death of Josephine Hart, Václav Havel, Robert Kroetsch 2010 in poetry Seamus Heaney 's Human Chain ; Death of Tuli Kupferberg , Peter Orlovsky , P. Lal , Edwin Morgan
January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. [ 1 ] April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".
A work of poetry published by the University of Georgia was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...