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Liz Lochhead
1947 -
Liz Lochhead
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Primary

Riddle-Me-Ree The Compton Poetry Fund / University of London, 1970

Memo for Spring Reprographia, 1972

Alasdair Gray: Retrospective Exhibition (includes poems by Liz Lochhead) Strathclyde University, 1974

Islands Glasgow Print Studio, 1978

Liz Lochhead (Writers in Brief Series: No. 1) National Book League, 1978

The Grimm Sisters Next Editions in association with Faber and Faber, 1981

Blood and Ice Salamander Press, 1982

Dreaming Frankenstein Polygon, 1984

Pinball (Methuen Theatrefile Volume 4) Methuen, 1985

Tartuffe: A translation into Scots from the original by Molière Polygon, 1985

True Confessions and New Clichés Polygon, 1985

For Bram Stoker: A Sequence of Poems National Book League, 1986

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off: and Dracula Penguin, 1989

Bagpipe Muzak Penguin, 1991

Penguin Modern Poets 4 (Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Sharon Olds) Penguin, 1995

Three Scottish Poets (Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead) Canongate, 1996

Cuba / Dog House (includes play 'Cuba' by Liz Lochhead) Faber and Faber, 1997

Perfect Days Nick Hern, 1998

Medea Nick Hern, 2000

Misery Guts Nick Hern, 2002

The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 Polygon, 2003

Secondary Material – Books and articles

R. Crawford and A. Varty (eds.) Liz Lochhead’s Voices, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Palmer McCulloch, Margery, Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (Glasgow: Association for Scottish LiteraryStudies, 2000)

Scullion, Adrienne, ‘Liz Lochhead’, Contemporary Dramatists, ed.Thomas Rigg, (New York: St. James Press, 1999; sixth edition)

‘The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead’, D. Gifford and D. McMillan (eds.) The History of Scottish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997)

Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition’, in Randall Stevenson and Gavin Wallace (eds), Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996)

Nicholson, Colin, ‘Liz Lochhead: The Knucklebones of Irony’, Poems, Purpose and Place: Shaping Identity in Contemporary Scottish Verse (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992),

Watson, Roderick (ed.), MacCaig, Morgan, Lochhead: Three Scottish Poets (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1992)

Sleeping With Monsters Conversations with Scottish and Irish Women Poets (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990)

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