damian entwistleToday's poem:
Last Supper
- by Liz Lochhead
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/809171914290528256/last-supper?source=share
#poetry #LizLochhead #relationships #endings #dissection #postmortem
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureLochhead’s Mary
26 March, Perth. £7.50/£5
Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is one of the most iconic plays in modern Scottish theatre. This special event will reflect on Lochhead’s enduring influence on Scottish writing & identity
https://www.culturepk.org.uk/event/lochheads-mary/
#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #LizLochhead #MaryQueenofScots #history #identity #ScottishIdentity
“Liz Lochhead made it possible to imagine being a poet”
—Kathleen Jamie
Liz Lochhead’s debut poetry collection, MEMO FOR SPRING, was published in 1972. In 2022 Birlinn brought out a 50th Anniversary edition
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/a-memo-for-spring/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #LizLochhead
Ali Smith: The book that changed me as a teenager
“Liz Lochhead’s Memo for Spring… I found a book so slim it had no spine, just hinges, and was by a woman who was young, Scottish and a poet (at this point in time a rare combination). The poems in it were so good, gripping and clear, written in a kind of Scottish English I knew was close to my own, but I’d never read in any book”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #womenwriters #LizLochhead #AliSmith
Molly Pin Li McLaren,
come home and look
at the pictures in your brand-new book—
a tree, a bird, a fish, a bell,
a bell, a fish, a tree, a bird.
Point, wee Molly, and say the word!
—Liz Lochhead “Glasgow Nonsense Rhyme”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon, 2016)
4/5
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #LizLochhead #adoption #Glasgow #Saints #StMungo
Today's poem:
Favourite Place
- by Liz Lochhead
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/803545251004481536/favourite-place?source=share
#poetry #LizLochhead #places #remembrance #location #love #loss #death #mourning
Liz Lochhead reads “From a Mouse” – her poetic response to Robert Burns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ecc4wh/play/afzbj5/p00nnbql
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #LizLochhead #mice #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotlsanguage
It’s me. The eponymous Moose
The To a Mouse that, were I in your hoose,
A bit o dust ablow the bed, thon dodd o’ oose
That, quick, turns tail,
Is – eek! – a living creature on the loose,
Wad gar you wail…
—Liz Lochhead, “From a Mouse” – a poetic response to Robert Burns, published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn 2016)
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #LizLochhead #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotlsanguage
AC Collective presents The Makar’s Mark
25 Sept–1 Oct, Glasgow. Free.
AC Collective is a group of artists based in & around Glasgow. Their third group exhibition presents artworks inspired by the poetry of Scotland’s former Makar, Liz Lochhead.
…fabulous film-noir stills of Central Station
of freezing fog silvering the chilled, stilled parks
of the glamorous past
where drops on a rainmate are sequins
in the lamplight, in the black-and-white…
—Liz Lochhead, “Some Old Photographs”
from A HANDSEL: New & Collected Poems (Birlinn, 2023)
Today, 19 August, is World Photography Day
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/a-handsel/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #Glasgow #photography #photos #WorldPhotographyDay #LizLochhead
