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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.
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]
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]
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 ]
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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 (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] She also adapted classic texts into Scots, with versions of Molière 's Tartuffe (1985) and The Misanthrope (1973–2005), while Edwin Morgan translated Cyrano de ...
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)