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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.
The Cholmondeley Awards (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.
The multi-award winning poet’s work spans four decades, and she is the fourth person to be appointed the Scottish Makar since the role was created in 2004, having succeeded Jackie Kay, Liz ...
Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring [18] ... Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems; National Book Award for Poetry: ...
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.
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 ...
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.
A work of poetry published by the University of Georgia was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.