Liz Lochhead
Autore di Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off & Dracula
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Liz Lochhead, author of "Dreaming Frankenstein" and "True Confessions" Photo by Graham Clark
Opere di Liz Lochhead
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1947-12-26
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Newarthill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK (birth)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Istruzione
- Glasgow School of Art
- Attività lavorative
- poet
playwright
teacher (fine art)
Writer
Broadcaster
Performance poet (mostra tutto 7)
Makar - Relazioni
- Logan, Tom (spouse)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Glasgow Makar (2005-2011)
Scots Makar (2011-2016)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 31
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 399
- Popolarità
- #60,805
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 2
Norman MacCaig: "The thatched roof rings like heaven where mice / Squeak small hosannahs all night long" and "a sea tin-tacked with rain" and "I love frogs that sit / like Buddha" and "The collie underneath the table / Slumps with a world-rejecting sigh."
Edwin Morgan: "After many summer dyes, the swan-white ice / glints only crystal beyond white. Even / dearest blue's not there, though poets would find it" and "half reluctant, half truculent, / half handsome, half absurd, / but let me see you forget him: not to be done."
Of course, there were entire poems that were magnificent in addition to those few select lines. My favorite voice in the collection, though, belongs to Liz Lochhead. Her observations of the smallest details take on significance (e.g., her shampoo in "The Empty Song"). The majority of her poems are about relationships along with a brilliant monologue called "Verena: Security" in which she honestly explores the pros and cons of a significant other working away from home for weeks at a time. I'll leave you and this review with the last stanza of Lochhead's "Hafiz on Danforth Avenue":
And to tell you this is easy,
scribbling this was as simple
as the shopping-list it jostles
on the next page of my notebook.
Love, as well as bread and coffee
it says eggplants, olive oil
don't forget
the nutmeg and the cinnamon.… (altro)