Fugitive Colours
Published on 30. May 2016
108 pages
978-0-85790-336-5 (ISBN)
Description
This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as 'Connecting Cultures', written for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 or more personal works, 'Favourite Place', about holidays in the west coast with her late husband, this collection is beautiful, sensitive and brilliant.
Throughout 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.'
Throughout 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.'
Reviews / Votes
'An inspirational presence in British poetry - funny, feisty, female, full of feeling' - -- Carol Ann Duffy 'Human relationships, especially as seen from a woman's point of view, are central: attraction, pain, acceptance, loss, triumphs and deceptions, habits and surprises; always made immediate through a storyteller's concrete detail of place or voice or object or colour remembered or imagined' -- Edwin Morgan 'This is the work of a highly intelligent, sensitive, perceptive, and humorous young woman ... Behind the brilliant display of fireworks, and the wry laughter, and the lyricism, there is a deal of pain' -- George Mackay Brown 'One of the few poets writing today capable of encompassing the matter of contemporary life in terms that are both attractive and thought provoking' * Books in Scotland * 'The social satires in Liz Lochhead's new collection are among the wittiest and most original pieces she has written' * Herald *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
0,55 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-336-5 (9780857903365)
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Person
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), The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 (Polygon, 2003) and A Choosing: Selected Poems (Polygon, 2011). Her plays include MTartuffe (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).
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Love and Grief, Elegies and Promises
- Favourite Place
- Persimmons
- A Handselling, 2006
- Lavender's Blue
- The Optimistic Sound
- Wedding Vow: The Simplest, Hardest and the Truest Thing
- Anniversaries
- A Cambric Shirt
- The Light Comes Back
- In the Mid-Midwinter
- Autumn with Magpie, Pomegranate
- Beyond It
- How to Be the Perfect Romantic Poet
- Ekphrasis, Etcetera
- Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966
- Some Old Photographs
- 'The Scullery Maid' and 'The Cellar Boy' by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
- The Art of Willie Rodger
- A Man Nearly Falling in Love
- In Alan Davie's Paintings
- Three Stanzas for Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Labyrinth
- Email to Alastair Cook
- The Ballad of Elsie Inglis
- Gallimaufry
- Way Back in the Paleolithic
- Kidspoems and Bairnsangs
- How I'll Decorate My Tree
- Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme, Nursery Rhyme, for Molly
- Nina's Song
- In Gaia's Poetry
- The Fruit of the Word
- Makar Songs, Occassional and Performance Pieces Mainly
- Poets Need Not
- Connecting Cultures
- Random
- Open
- Spring 2010, and at His Desk by the Window is Eddie in a Red Shirt
- When the Poem Went to Prison
- Listen
- The Silk Road
- In Praise of Monsieur Sax
- Grace
- Lines for the Centenary of the Scotch Whisky Association
- From a Mouse
- The Theatre Maker's Credo
- In Number One Dressing Room
- Nick Dowp, Feeling Miscast in a Very English Production, Rehearses Bottom's Dream
- Epistle to David
- Portait of a Gentleman at Sixty
- Address to a Septuagenarian Gentleman at Home
- For Myra McFadden on her Sixtieth Birthday
- Song for a Dirty Diva
- Another, Later, Song for that Same Dirty Diva
- In Praise of Old Vinyl
- Acknowledgements
