Liz Lochhead is one of Scotland’s best-known poets and dramatists, with her books and poetry attracting wide critical and commercial success. She has recently been appointed as Scotland’s new Makar, taking over from the late Edwin Morgan, as Scotland’s foremost living poet, essentially Scotland’s “Poet Laureate”. She is also a tireless performer and screenwriter, performing all over the UK and overseas.
Born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, in 1947, she taught art in schools before becoming a full time writer. She has won numerous awards and bursaries, beginning with a Scottish Arts Council award for Memo for Spring in 1972, and more recently with Medea, which won the Saltire Scotiety Scottish Book of the Year Award.
Lochhead manages to bridge the gap between the literary and the popular with her lively, witty takes on modern life and relationships, particularly her poems on the lot of modern women. The language she employs is risch in the spoken Scots of Glasgow, and filled with a warmth and humanity that never fails to truly connect with her audience. Sponsored by Braidwoods, Solicitors and Estate Agents.
