Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Liz Lochhead
Standard Name: Lochhead, Liz
Birth Name: Eizabeth Anne Lochhead
Nickname: Liz
LL
, a contemporary Scottish poet and dramatist, has written a number of sketches, monologues, revues, and full-length plays (some of them adapted from canonical works of the past). She names the Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan
as a poetic inspiration.
Lochhead, Liz. Bagpipe Muzak. Penguin.
79, 83-4
She writes about the glitzy modern world of high commerce and humdrum poverty, the failure of emotional response, the selling of heritage. Her fictional characters, most of them women, are seldom lovable and often sharply funny. Although her individual works may seem slight, they resonate powerfully.
Contributors included Gillian Clarke
(with In a Cardiff Arcade, 1952), Jackie Kay
(with Silver Moon, for London's feminist bookshop, 1982-2001), and Liz Lochhead
(for the more general Essentials).
Textual Features
Isak Dinesen
Writer Liz Lochhead
comments that these tough, transparent fables of longing, of difficult delight and consolation, are romances in the Shakespearian
sense.
Lochhead, Liz. “Ice”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, pp. 26-7.
27
Judith Thurman
calls this volume the most Danish of ID
's works...