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title="Makar (National Poet for Scotland)">Makar</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 January 2011 – 31 January 2016</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Morgan_(poet)" title="Edwin Morgan (poet)">Edwin Morgan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Kay" title="Jackie Kay">Jackie Kay</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Elizabeth Anne Lochhead</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1947-12-26</span>) </span>26 December 1947<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 76)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Craigneuk" title="Craigneuk">Craigneuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lanarkshire" title="Lanarkshire">Lanarkshire</a>, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_School_of_Art" title="Glasgow School of Art">Glasgow School of Art</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Teacher, poet, playwright, Makar</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Liz Lochhead</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellowship_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">Hon FRSE</a> (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 2011 and 2016 she was the <a href="/wiki/Makar" title="Makar">Makar</a>, or National Poet of Scotland,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served as <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet Laureate">Poet Laureate</a> for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elizabeth Anne Lochhead was born in <a href="/wiki/Craigneuk" title="Craigneuk">Craigneuk</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a "little ex-mining village just outside <a href="/wiki/Motherwell" title="Motherwell">Motherwell</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lanarkshire" title="Lanarkshire">Lanarkshire</a>. Her mother and father had both served in the army during the Second World War, and later, her father was a local government clerk. In 1952, the family moved into a new council house in the mining village of <a href="/wiki/Newarthill" title="Newarthill">Newarthill</a>, where her sister was born in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though she was encouraged by her teachers to study English,<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lochhead was determined to go to <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_School_of_Art" title="Glasgow School of Art">Glasgow School of Art</a> where she studied between 1965 and 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduation Lochhead taught art at high schools in Glasgow and Bristol,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a career at which she says she was "terrible"<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having written poetry as a child and whilst studying at Art School, Lochhead won a BBC Scotland Poetry Competition in 1971,<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Gordon Wright published her first collection of Poetry, <i>Memo For Spring</i> in 1972 under his Reprographia imprint.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is often claimed that at this time Lochhead was part of a <a href="/wiki/Philip_Hobsbaum" title="Philip Hobsbaum">Philip Hobsbaum</a> writers' group, a crucible of creative activity – with other members including <a href="/wiki/Alasdair_Gray" title="Alasdair Gray">Alasdair Gray</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Kelman" title="James Kelman">James Kelman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Leonard_(poet)" title="Tom Leonard (poet)">Tom Leonard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aonghas_MacNeacail" title="Aonghas MacNeacail">Aonghas MacNeacail</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Torrington" title="Jeff Torrington">Jeff Torrington</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liz Lochhead has repeatedly claimed this to be an invention.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has however recalled the support and inspiration she drew from the Scottish poetry scene of the early 1970s and meetings with the elder generation - <a href="/wiki/Norman_MacCaig" title="Norman MacCaig">Norman MacCaig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Morgan_(poet)" title="Edwin Morgan (poet)">Edwin Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Garioch" title="Robert Garioch">Robert Garioch</a> – and with contemporaries such as Leonard, Kelman and Gray.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lochhead went on to produce revue shows with Leonard and Gray, including Tickly Mince,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and The Pie of Damocles.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other the following years Lochhead published further collections <i>Islands</i> (1978) and <i>The Grimm Sisters</i> (1979) and moved first to Toronto as part of the first Scottish/Canadian writers exchange and later made her home in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1986 she returned permanently to Glasgow.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lochhead's success in poetry was rivalled by her writing for the theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her plays include <i>Blood and Ice</i> (1982), <i><a href="/wiki/Mary_Queen_of_Scots_Got_Her_Head_Chopped_Off" title="Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off">Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off</a></i> (1987), <i>Perfect Days</i> (2000) and a highly acclaimed adaptation into Scots of <a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re" title="Molière">Molière</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Tartuffe" title="Tartuffe">Tartuffe</a></i> (1985). She adapted the medieval texts of the <i>York Mystery Plays</i>, performed by a largely amateur cast at York Theatre Royal in 1992 and 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Medea_(play)" title="Medea (play)">Medea</a></i> won the <a href="/wiki/Saltire_Society" title="Saltire Society">Saltire Society</a> <a href="/wiki/Saltire_Society_Literary_Awards" title="Saltire Society Literary Awards">Scottish Book of the Year Award</a> in 2001. Her plays have been performed on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Imrie#Blood_and_Ice" title="Marilyn Imrie">Blood and Ice</a></i> (11 June 1990), <i><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Imrie#The_Perfect_Days" title="Marilyn Imrie">The Perfect Days</a></i> (16 May 1999), <i><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Imrie#Mary_Queen_of_Scots_Got_Her_Head_Chopped_Off" title="Marilyn Imrie">Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off</a></i> (11 February 2001) and <i><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Imrie#The_Stanley_Baxter_Playhouse:_Mortal_Memories" title="Marilyn Imrie">The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Mortal Memories</a></i> (26 June 2006). Her adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Helen_Simpson_(author)" title="Helen Simpson (author)">Helen Simpson</a>'s short story <i>Burns and the Bankers</i> was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> on Burns Night, 25 January 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her plays <i>Educating Agnes</i> and <i>Thebans</i> premiered in the early 2000s,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2011 as part of the Glasgay Festival, Liz Lochhead's play <i>Edwin Morgan's Dreams and Other Nightmares</i> premiered at the Tron<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it was revived three years later as part of the cultural celebrations for the commonwealth games.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has produced many new works for the Oran Mor in Glasgow, including <i>Mortal Memories</i> (2012) and <i>Between the Thinks Bubble and the Speech Balloon</i> (2014) with Tom Leonard, William Letford, Grace Cleary, and Henry Bell. </p><p>Like her work for theatre, her poetry is alive with vigorous speech idioms; later collections include <i>True Confessions and New Clichés</i> (1985), <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bagpipe_Muzak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bagpipe Muzak (page does not exist)">Bagpipe Muzak</a></i> (1991), <i>Dreaming Frankenstein: and Collected Poems</i> (1984), The Colour of Black and White (2003) and <i>A Choosing</i> (2011). Liz Lochhead also enjoys writing songs and combining poetry with music and she has collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Dundee" title="Dundee">Dundee</a> singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Michael_Marra" title="Michael Marra">Michael Marra</a> to whom she dedicated the poem 'Ira and George'.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as providing guest vocals on the track 'Trouble is Not a Place' from the 2014 EP <i>The Bird That Never Flew</i> by Glaswegian experimental hip hop group <a href="/wiki/Hector_Bizerk" title="Hector Bizerk">Hector Bizerk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has also collaborated extensively with saxophonist Steve Kettley and Dundonian band The Hazey Janes.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lochhead performs internationally in theatres and literary festivals, as well as appearing regularly at nights around Glasgow and Edinburgh.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lochhead is a republican and vocal supporter of <a href="/wiki/Scottish_independence" title="Scottish independence">Scottish independence</a>, having performed with pro-independence group <a href="/wiki/National_Collective" title="National Collective">National Collective</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and opined in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> that <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a> would have voted for independence.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lochhead is also well known as a feminist, both from her writing and public appearances;<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she has said in the past, 'feminism is like the hoovering, you just have to keep doing it.'<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, Lochhead travelled to Palestine, and was deeply affected by what she saw in the West Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has been a firm opponent of the Israeli occupation, and a supporter of the call for a cultural boycott of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, she was involved in preparing <i>A Bird is Not a Stone</i>, an anthology of contemporary Palestinian poetry translated into the languages of Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lochhead is openly critical of Scottish arts funding body <a href="/wiki/Creative_Scotland" title="Creative Scotland">Creative Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2005,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lochhead became the <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet Laureate">Poet Laureate</a> for Glasgow, a position she held until stepping down in 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when she was named as the second Scots <a href="/wiki/Makar" title="Makar">Makar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or national poet of Scotland, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Morgan_(poet)" title="Edwin Morgan (poet)">Edwin Morgan</a> who had died the previous year.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She stepped down from this role in February 2016,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Kay" title="Jackie Kay">Jackie Kay</a> in March 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She is currently the Honorary President of the Caledonian Cultural Fellows at <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Caledonian_University" title="Glasgow Caledonian University">Glasgow Caledonian University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and holds honorary doctorates from ten of Scotland's universities.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was writer in residence at <a href="/wiki/Duncan_of_Jordanstone_College_of_Art_and_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design">Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design</a> in 1980<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later at <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow University">Glasgow University</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">The University of Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_School_of_Art" title="Glasgow School of Art">Glasgow School of Art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">the Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014 she was elected a Honorary Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015 Liz Lochhead was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Gold_Medal_for_Poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry">Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lochhead is only the 11th woman to have been awarded the prize since its inception in 1933, and the eighth Scot.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A statue of her face was erected at <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Park" title="Edinburgh Park">Edinburgh Park</a>, along with those of other famous Scottish poets. The statue contains engravings of her poems. <sup id="cite_ref-Bell_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bell-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, at the Book Awards Ceremony in Glasgow, Lochhead was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1986, Liz Lochhead married the architect Tom Logan.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple lived together in Glasgow until his death in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death she wrote the poem <i>Favourite Place</i> about their caravan on the West Coast of Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It ends: </p> <dl><dd>But tonight you are three months dead</dd> <dd>and I must pull down the bed and lie in it alone.</dd> <dd>Tomorrow, and every day in this place</dd> <dd>these words of Sorley MacLean’s will echo through me:</dd> <dd><i>The world is still beautiful, though you are not in it.</i></dd> <dd>And this will not be a consolation</dd> <dd>but a further desolation.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_works">Published works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Published works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1972: <i>Memo For Spring</i>. Reprographia.</li> <li>1978: <i>Islands</i>. Print Studio Press.</li> <li>1979: <i>The Grimm Sisters.</i> Coach House Press.</li> <li>1999: <i>Bagpipe Muzak</i>. Penguin Books.</li> <li>1999: <i>Perfect Days</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2000: <i>Medea</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2001: <i>Cuba</i> (with <a href="/wiki/Gina_Moxley" title="Gina Moxley">Gina Moxley</a>). Faber & Faber.</li> <li>2002: <i>Misery Guts</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2003: <i>The Colour of Black and White</i>. Polygon.</li> <li>2003: <i>Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems, 1967–84</i>. Polygon.</li> <li>2003: <i>Thebans</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2003: <i>True Confessions: And New Cliches</i>. Polygon.</li> <li>2006: <i>Good Things</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2009: <i>Educating Agnes</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2009: <i>Blood and Ice</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2010: <i>Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li> <li>2011: <i>A Choosing.</i> Polygon</li> <li>2012: <i>Liz Lochhead: Five Plays</i>. Nick Hern Books.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Radio_plays">Radio plays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Radio plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <th colspan="6" style="background:#B0C4DE;"><a href="/wiki/Radio_Play" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Play">Radio Plays</a> adapted by Liz Lochhead </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th>Date first broadcast </th> <th>Play </th> <th>Director </th> <th>Cast </th> <th>Synopsis<br />Awards </th> <th>Station<br />Series </th></tr> <tr id="Burns_and_the_Bankers"> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-01-25-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">25 January 2012</span> </td> <td><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amber_Barnfather&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amber Barnfather (page does not exist)">Burns and the Bankers</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Amber Barnfather </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Thompson" title="Sophie Thompson">Sophie Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Sessions" title="John Sessions">John Sessions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greg_Wise" title="Greg Wise">Greg Wise</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Forbes_(actor)" title="Peter Forbes (actor)">Peter Forbes</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_McKay_(actor)" title="David McKay (actor)">David McKay</a>, Angela Darcy, <a href="/wiki/Siobhan_Redmond" title="Siobhan Redmond">Siobhan Redmond</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge" title="Phoebe Waller-Bridge">Phoebe Waller-Bridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maynard_Eziashi" title="Maynard Eziashi">Maynard Eziashi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Helen_Simpson_(author)" title="Helen Simpson (author)">Helen Simpson</a>'s satirical and poignant short story, dramatised for radio by Liz Lochhead. Nicola Beaumont (English, partner in a law firm, mother of four) reluctantly sits down to a long-winded corporate Burns Supper. At first impatient with the whisky-fuelled pomposity around her, Nicola finds herself surprisingly moved as the traditional rituals of a Burns Night unfold. What she comes to learn about the eighteenth-century Scots poet brings new self-knowledge and helps her through the night's violent emotions and climactic events. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> <a href="/wiki/Afternoon_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Afternoon Drama">Afternoon Drama</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reviews">Reviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liz_Lochhead&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mills, Paul (1982), <i>The Individual Voice</i>, which includes a review of <i>The Grimm Sisters</i>, in Murray, Glen (ed.), <i><a href="/wiki/Cencrastus" title="Cencrastus">Cencrastus</a></i> No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 45 & 46, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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