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Liz Lochhead discusses her new play, Edwin Morgan's Dreams – and Other Nightmares

Liz Lochhead discusses her new play, Edwin Morgan's Dreams – and Other Nightmares

The new production will premiere at this year's Glasgay! festival

21 Sep 2011

It’s a sprightly Liz Lochhead who comes into Edinburgh’s Urban Angel for a breakfast coffee – latte with an extra shot – in the midst of a typically whirlwind calendar of deadlines, poetry readings and confabs with theatre directors. This summer she had…

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Edinburgh, first City of Literature, boasts some of the world’s most famous and well-loved authors

16 Feb 2011

Challenge anyone who doubts Edinburgh’s claim to be a literary city to come up with another capital whose main station is named after a novel (Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley), one of whose football teams is named after another (The Heart of Midlothian…

Liz Lochhead announced as Scots Makar, succeeding Edwin Morgan

Liz Lochhead announced as Scots Makar, succeeding Edwin Morgan

Poet, author, playwright appointed to role of Scotland's national poet

21 Jan 2011

Poet and playwright Liz Lochhead has been announced as Scotland's national poet on Wednesday. She succeeds Edwin Morgan, who died in August 2010 aged 90 and who held the title of Makar since it's creation in 2004. Lochhead, First Minister Alex Salmond…

Scottish 'poet laureate' Edwin Morgan dies, aged 90

Scottish 'poet laureate' Edwin Morgan dies, aged 90

New generations of fans continue to discover his work

20 Aug 2010

Edwin Morgan was a Glasgow writer: born in the city’s West End, he was raised in Rutherglen and studied and worked at the University of Glasgow. Much of his writing reflects his love of the city and its changing nature, and he was never afraid to…

7VWWVW with Wounded Knee

7VWWVW with Wounded Knee

Whitehill School, Glasgow, Thu 25 Mar 2010

(4 stars)15 Apr 2010

Sometimes the ‘where’ is just as important as the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘why’. So the setting was a key player at this beautifully oddball one-off show; where a high school lecture hall in Dennistoun hosted Edinburgh analogue synthesiser collective, 7VWWVW…

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