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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.
Liz Lochhead: 2002 Clara: Janice Galloway [17] 2003 Joseph Knight: James Robertson: 2004 In Another Light: Andrew Greig [18] 2005 Case Histories: Kate Atkinson [19] 2006 A Lie About My Father: John Burnside: 2007 Day: A. L. Kennedy: 2008 Kieron Smith, Boy: James Kelman [20] 2009 The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography: Robert Crawford [21] 2010 And ...
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 ...
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 ...
January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. [ 1 ] April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem".
Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring [18] George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70; Derek Mahon, Lives. ... Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems;
A work of poetry published by the University of Georgia was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.