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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]
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 ...
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 .
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The poem "Fugitive Colours" by Liz Lochhead (2016) references Linden. [ 56 ] Linden's personality was summarised by his friend Gerald Mangan in a pen and ink drawing of Linden arriving at the gates of Heaven accompanied by Saint Peter , who appeals to a surly God , "He says he's a manic-depressive alcoholic lapsed-Catholic Irish working-class ...
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.
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. [50] Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition ...