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Fugitive Colours
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Fugitive Colours
Never-before-published work marks the end of an era for one of Scotland's most celebrated poets.
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About the Ebook
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.'Why You'll Love This Ebook
- The final collection from Liz Lochhead's term as Scots Makar (2011-2016)
- Includes commissioned works alongside deeply personal poems
- Beautiful, sensitive and brilliant writing from Scotland's former Poet Laureate
- Read another celebrated title from Polygon - an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Reviews
'The social satires in Liz Lochhead's new collection are among the wittiest and most original pieces she has written.' The Herald
About the Author
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).Publication Details
Publisher: Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn Ltd)
Publication Date: 26 May 2016
Print Length: 128 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9780857903365
Format: Ebook
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