This stunning collection features never before published work along with
poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her
term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned
works, such as 'Connecting Cultures', written for the Commonwealth Games
in 2014 or more personal works, 'Favourite Place', about holidays in the
west coast with her late husband, this collection is beautiful,
sensitive and brilliant.
Throughout her career Liz Lochhead has been described variously as a
poet, feminist-playwright, translator and broadcaster but has said that
'when somebody asks me what I do I usually say writer. The most precious
thing to me is to be a poet. If I were a playwright, I'd like to be a
poet in the theatre.'