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Liz Lochhead (innate December 26, 1947) is a Scottish poet & playwright, originally from either Motherwell. When attending Glasgow School of Art, she lectured in art for eight years prior to becoming the agent writer. In the early 1970s she joined Philip Hobsbaum's writers' group, the melting pot of creation - more members were Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Tom Leonard. She is one of Scotland's most popular playwright. Her plays include Blood & Ice, Mary Queen of Scots Had Her Head Chopped Off (1987), Right Times (2000) & the extremely acclaimed adaptation into Scots of Molière's Tartuffe (1985). Prefer her operate for theatre, her poetry is alive by using vigorous speech idioms; collections include True Confessions & Just released Clichés (1985), Bagpipe Muzak (1991) & Dreaming Frankenstein: & Collected Poems (1984).

As the performance creative person she sets higher a lively resonance by having audiences, bringing to bear an impeccable feel of timing. She has manufactured successful collaborations, notably by using Dundee singer-songwriter Michael Mara. Imbued sustaining the humour that is laced by having surprise & irony, her operate when a whole is when thought-challenging as these are entertaining.

Write Stuff: Liz Lochhead
Brief profile.

Liz Lochhead: An Annotated Bibliography.
From the Kalamalka Institute for Working Writers. In PDF format.

Scottish Literature 1: Liz Lochhead
Reading list of primary and secondary sources, from Edinburgh University.

Scottish Poetry Library: Liz Lochhead
Profile of the poet and playwright.