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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.
Donald Justice Poetry Prize – sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center Dwarf Stars Award – annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year.
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]
In recent times, the award has been announced on the (traditional date of the) birthday of William Shakespeare, 23 April. However, Don Paterson was awarded the medal alongside the 2010 New Year Honours. [2] The Gold Medal for Poetry was instituted by King George V in 1933 at the suggestion of the British royal court's poet laureate, John Masefield.
Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring [18] ... Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems; National Book Award for Poetry: ...
Pulitzer-winner David Hume Kennerly defended Liz Cheney after he resigned from the Ford Foundation over its refusal to consider her for its public service award — driven, he said, by the ...
Years before Windham Hill released her landmark 1983 solo piano debut, Solid Colors, Liz Story was also on the hunt for something she hadn’t yet heard. Having studied and performed classical ...
Somerset Maugham Award (1994); Guardian Fiction Prize (1998); Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award (2011) 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).