A Choosing
The Selected Poems of Liz Lochhead
Published on 21. September 2011
104 pages
978-0-85790-104-0 (ISBN)
Description
During her career Liz Lochhead has been described variously as a poet, feminist playwright, translator and broadcaster but has said that 'when somebody asks me what I do I usually say writer. The most precious thing to me is to be a poet. If I were a playwright, I'd like to be a poet in the theatre.' Liz Lochhead has a large and devoted audience and delights audiences where she goes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
1,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-104-0 (9780857901040)
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Person
Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead was born in Motherwell in 1947. After studying at Glasgow School of Art she taught at art schools in Glasgow and Bristol while working on her poetry. She is a Fellow of Glasgow School of Art, an Honorary Doctor of Letters of Glasgow University, a Fellow of RSAMD and of Glasgow Institute of Art, and is an Honorary President of the Scottish Poetry Library. Her poetry collections include Dreaming Frankenstein (Polygon 1984), True Confessions and New Cliches (Polygon 1985), Bagpipe Muzak (Penguin 1991), and The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 (Polygon 2003). Her plays include Tartuffe (Polygon 1986), Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (Penguin 1989) and the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award-winning Medea (Nick Hern Books 2000). Liz Lochhead lives in Glasgow.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author's Note
- A Night In
- Persimmons
- Neckties
- Vow: The Simplest, Hardest and the Truest Thing
- Epithalamium
- View of Scotland/Love Poem
- After the War
- 1953
- Sorting Through
- Social History
- Some Old Photographs
- For my Grandmother Knitting
- Poem for my Sister
- My Mother's Suitors
- Poppies
- Lanarkshire Girls
- The Choosing
- Kidspoem/Bairnsang
- In the Dreamschool
- The Teachers
- After a Warrant Sale
- Fragmentary
- The Offering
- Obituary
- Poem for Other Poor Fools
- Inventory
- Revelation
- An Abortion
- Notes on the Inadequacy of a Sketch
- Laundrette
- The Bargain
- 5th April 1990
- Hafiz on Danforth Avenue
- Fourth of July Fireworks
- Ontario October Going West
- The Empty Song
- Noises in the Dark
- My Rival's House
- Midsummer Night
- What the Pool Said, on Midsummer's Day
- Dreaming Frankenstein
- Smirnoff for Karloff
- Fetch on the First of January
- Mirror's Song
- Rapunzstiltskin
- Spinster
- Bawd
- Song of Solomon
- The Other Woman
- The Hickie
- Last Supper
- Everybody's Mother
- The Man in the Comic Strip
- Ira and George
- The Baker
- The New-married Miner
- Poets Need Not
- Notes on Sources
