Liz Lochhead: Poems

Honours and awards

In 2005,[29] Lochhead became the Poet Laureate for Glasgow, a position she held until stepping down in 2011,[30] when she was named as the second Scots Makar,[31] or national poet of Scotland, succeeding Edwin Morgan who had died the previous year.[32] She stepped down from this role in February 2016,[33] and was succeeded by Jackie Kay in March 2016.[34]

She is currently the Honorary President of the Caledonian Cultural Fellows at Glasgow Caledonian University.[35] and holds honorary doctorates from ten of Scotland's universities.[36]

She was writer in residence at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 1980[37] and later at Glasgow University, The University of Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Eton.[38][39]

In 2014 she was elected a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[40]

In 2015 Liz Lochhead was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.[5] Lochhead is only the 11th woman to have been awarded the prize since its inception in 1933, and the eighth Scot.[5]

A statue of her face was erected at Edinburgh Park, along with those of other famous Scottish poets. The statue contains engravings of her poems. [41]


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