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Description for Fugitive Colours
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This stunning new 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 ... Read more
This stunning new 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polygon
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846973451
SKU
V9781846973451
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About Liz Lochhead
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Fugitive Colours
'An inspirational presence in British poetry - funny, feisty, female, full of feeling' -
Carol Ann Duffy 'The social satires in Liz Lochhead's new collection are among the wittiest and most original pieces she has written'
Herald
'One of the few poets writing today capable of encompassing the matter of contemporary life in terms that are both ... Read more
Carol Ann Duffy 'The social satires in Liz Lochhead's new collection are among the wittiest and most original pieces she has written'
Herald
'One of the few poets writing today capable of encompassing the matter of contemporary life in terms that are both ... Read more