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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 effect is the view that the 'best' poems are those that come to be set in exams and that the people best able to pass these exams will be the people best able to understand and write poetry. [18] Leonard traced these views back to the nineteenth-century invention of literature as a "subject" in schools.
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 ...
Liz Lochhead, Islands [13] George MacBeth , Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977 ) [ 13 ] Hugh MacDiarmid , pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died September 9), Collected Poems 1920–1976 , [ 13 ] two volumes (posthumous)
His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. [41] Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition ...
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.
His main interest is in Post-Enlightenment Scottish literature, [5] including Robert Burns [6] and Robert Fergusson, [7] but he has a keen interest in contemporary poetry, [8] including Edwin Morgan, [9] Douglas Dunn [10] and Liz Lochhead. [11] Crawford is a prolific and successful poet and concerns himself with the nature and processes of ...