This was a huge success at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival, subsequently performed elsewhere in Britain and in Europe. Written in Lallan Scots, it is a most exciting piece of poetic drama.

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Literature & Fiction

Liz Lochhead

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. Dreaming Frankenstein: & Collected Poems stands as a monument to her early work: four collections Memo for Spring (1972), Islands (1978) and Grimm Sisters (1981) and the title volume together provide a complete record of her poetry from 1967 to 1984. In Dreaming Frankenstein human relationships, especially as seen from a woman's point of view, are central. Attraction, pain, acceptance, loss, triumphs and deceptions all are made immediate through her imagery and acute powers of observation and through her flair as a storyteller.

Dreaming Frankenstein

Poetry

Polygon

Inspired by the ancient Greek mythology of Medea, often depicted as a mortal sorceress with divine ancestry, five master playwrights explore the varied mythological legends in The Myth Strikes Back and offer inspired views that extend into equally varied contemporary environments.

The Myth Strikes Back: MEDEA Plays by Women

Marianne McDonald

Velin Hasu Houston

Kirsten Brandt

Cherríe Moraga

Murasaki Books

This is an exclusive limited edition with a preface by Liz Lochhead and a new introduction by Ali Smith.\nLiz 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 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, fifty years on from her first book of poetry, Liz Lochhead has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and was Scotland’s second modern Makar, succeeding Edwin Morgan. 
Memo for Spring is accessible, vital and always as honest as it is hopeful. Driving through this collection are themes of pain, acceptance, loss and triumph.

Memo for Spring: 50th Anniversary Edition

Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Centenary Issue, Part 2 of 3, A Party Between Two Covers (Chapman 102-3): Featured Artist John Bellany (Chapman Magazine)

John Clifford

Matthew Fitt

Tom Leonard

William, Neill

BILL DUNCAN

george-mackay-brown

W.N. Herbert

Carl MacDougall

Robert Alan Jamieson

Walter Perrie

Gerry Cambridge

Anne Donovan

Liz Niven

Ian Abbot

Regl Claire

Valerie Thornton

Literary

Chapman Publishing

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