Participants: Liz Lochhead

Photo: Graham Clark

Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright and broadcaster, is Glasgow’s Poet Laureate. Her theatrical pieces, including Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Perfect Days and translations including Moliere’s Misery Guts have become modern classics. Her first collection of poems published in 1972 won an SAC Book Award. Subsequent collections include Dreaming Frankenstein & Collected Poems (1984) and The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 (2003), both from Polygon.

StAnza 2008 Events:

Sun 16 March | In Conversation
Liz Lochhead talking to Alan Taylor
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium


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	Archive: 2008 Information Events Participants Afterword Photo Gallery Archives Past Programmes Past Participants Past Virtual StAnza 2012 StAnza 2011 StAnza 2010 StAnza 2009 StAnza 2008 StAnza 2007 StAnza 2006 StAnza 2005 Current Festival StAnza 2013	Participants: Liz Lochhead Photo: Graham Clark Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright and broadcaster, is Glasgow’s Poet Laureate. Her theatrical pieces, including Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Perfect Days and translations including Moliere’s Misery Guts have become modern classics. Her first collection of poems published in 1972 won an SAC Book Award. Subsequent collections include Dreaming Frankenstein & Collected Poems (1984) and The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 (2003), both from Polygon. StAnza 2008 Events: Sun 16 March \| In Conversation Liz Lochhead talking to Alan Taylor The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium Back to top