Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known (and best-loved) living playwrights.Liz Lochhead is the author of many highly inventive original plays, adaptations and translations, all crafted with her special blend of the vividly colloquial and the energetically poetic. This volume brings together five of her best original plays ranging over three decades and several, contrasting styles.Her first play, Blood and Ice

"The wit and swagger" of this collection by the celebrated Scottish poet "belie a skill as a technician that she shares with the greats" ( Scotsman, UK).This poetry collection by Liz Lochhead features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar—Scotland's national poet. They from commissioned works, such as 'Connecting Cultures', written for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 to more personal works, such as 'Favourite Pl...

The 50th Anniversary Edition of the debut collection from "an inspirational presence in British poetry—funny, feisty, female, full of feeling" (Carol Ann Duffy, first woman poet laureate of Great Britain).Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut collection, published in 1972, was a landmark publication. Writing at a time when the landscape of Scottish poetry was male dominated, hers was a new voice, tackling subjects that r...

Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. Her debut collection, Memo for Spring (1972), was a landmark publication. Writing at a time when the landscape of Scottish poetry was male dominated, hers was a fresh, new voice, tackling subjects that resonated with readers – as it still does. Her poetry paved the way, and inspired, countless new voices including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy. Still writing and performing today, more than fifty ...

The celebrated Scottish poet presents a collection of poems from the intimate to the bawdy—paired with original linocut artwork by Willie Rodger.Liz Lochhead is one of Scotland's most beloved contemporary poets. In this wide-ranging collection, she offers poems of love, death and iconic figures; Jungian archetypes who often speak in their own voices. There are also poems set in her native Lanarkshire; poems dedicated to other poets; and a section of "unrespectable"...

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Mary's contribution is to become one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time.Using flashbacks and the rich poetic langu...

Five full-cast dramas by the celebrated Scottish writer Liz Lochhead, plus a short storyLiz Lochhead is a widely recognised poet, playwright and performer. She was the Makar, Scotland’s national poet, between 2011 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. The six pieces in this anthology are characterised by their evocative language and focus on different facets of female identity: from schoolgirls, wives and mothers to convention-defying...

The celebrated Scottish poet brings together nearly 20 years of work in this anthology— "a rare thing: a book of poems which sparkles" ( Scotsman, UK).Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. She gained worldwide acclaim as the Scots Makar—or Scotland's National Poet—from 2011 to 2016, and before that served for six years as Poet Laureate of Glasgow.Dreaming Franke...

A short play from the leading Scottish poet and playwright.Verena and her oilman husband are childless, and their marriage is unravelling. In two intercut monologues which take place over the course of a year, we enter the hearts of each of them in turn.Liz Lochhead's play Quelques Fleurs was first staged at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, in 1991.

A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.'Once upon a time, there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split inty twa kingdoms. But no equal kingdoms...'Mary and Elizabeth are two women with much in common, but more that sets them apart.Following the death of her husband, the Dauphin of France...

'Why do folk not, ever, catch on to themselves?… Ach, gies you another interesting nutter to play.'Welcome to Paris at the time of Louis XIV. Come backstage and meet the King's theatre company – a troupe of grandes dames, old hams, ingénues and, of course, their leading man, author of their dramas and cause of all their troubles... thon man Molière.Under constant threat of debtors' prison, in big bother with church and state and – worst of all – disastrously in lov...

A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and almost deafened by the ticking of her biological clock. To make matters worse, her mother is a nag, her best friend is holding out on her, and her ex-husband has a new 22-year-old girlfriend. Then she meets a 26-year-old stranger who seems more than ready to oblige. But the complications are by...