# Liz Lochhead

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From the Archive: Liz Lochhead 40th Anniversary of Memo for Spring. September 2012

In 1972, Liz Lochhead published her debut collection, Memo For Spring, a landmark in Scottish literature. In an extended interview with Colin Waters, the then Scots Makar discusses what the early 1970s poetry scene she emerged into was like, one in which women poets were few and far between. She re…

Literature Paper 1 - Poetry - 'Storyteller'

Ms Yemenakis and Mrs Ravenscroft discuss ‘Storyteller' by Liz Lochhead. Don't forget to download the handout here.

Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay is one of the best known and most popular Scottish literary figures. A poet and novelist, she served as Makar - the name for Scotland’s poet laureate - for five years from 2016. Since her debut poetry collection The Adoption Papers in 1991, she has published 20 works of fiction and verse…

Al McClimens on Simon Armitage's poem 'Evening' and his own poem 'Grand National'

In this episode, I talk to Al McClimens about Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Evening’ and his own poem ‘Grand National’. We discuss ideas of place and time in Armitage's 'views' of Marsden, the village where he grew up, and how these ideas are represented in his work.   We focus on the formal designs of b…

Nothing But The Poem - Juana Adcock

The latest edition of our Nothing But The Poem podcast, hosted as usual by Samuel Tongue, features two poems by Juana Adcock. Samuel Tongue comments: "Juana Adcock is a poet who works between languages and registers and themes, ever inventive and risk-taking. In this all too brief intro to two of …

Cairns Craig, “The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence” (Edinburgh UP, 2018)

Professor Cairns Craig’s new book, The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), which has been shortlisted for the Saltire History Book of the Year Award, is a wide-ranging study of the ways in which Scottish culture was defined, exported, transfo…

09. Revelation by Liz Lochhead

Audio for the listening activity on page 169 of the student textbook

The Last Letter - A Special International Women's Day Episode

Send us Fan Mail To mark International Women's Day, Nicky visits one of the most extraordinary pieces of Scottish history currently on public display, the last letter ever written by Mary Queen of Scots. Written in the early hours of 8th February 1587, just hours before her execution at Fotheringha…

Let Them Eat Books Episode 46: Aqua Vitae

Kathleen Jamie and Liz Lochhead are the poets whose work we discuss in this episode of Let Them Eat Books, host by Claire and Colin, well oiled by The Water of Life!