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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.
Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) [1] was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance.He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Read the full poem at www.poets.org. 'America, I Sing Back' by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke “Oh, but here I am, here I am, here, I remain high on each and every peak,
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 ...