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True Confessions

by Liz Lochhead

ISBN: 9780954407537
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

‘The social satires in Liz Lochhead’s new collection are among the wittiest and most original pieces she has written.’ – The Herald

‘This is the work of a highly intelligent, sensitive, perceptive, and humorous young woman . . . Behind the brilliant display of fireworks, and the wry laughter, and the lyricism, there is a deal of pain.’ – George Mackay Brown

InTrue Confessions & New Clichés, Liz Lochhead has brought together a selection of the best of her raps, songs, sketches and monologues from her plays and revues. She pokes fun at the seriousness with which we deal with everyday events in touching and hilarious ways. For a poet who believes so much in poetry belonging to the voice, these works hold a special place and they have become firm favourites with the many fans who attend her public readings.

Liz Lochhead is the Scottish Makar (Poet Laureate) and is regarded as one of Scotland’s best and most popular poets and dramatists. Her poetry is characterised by a self-conscious effort to mimic the idioms of speech, adopting a range of spoken styles that include the lyrical use of cliché, rap, colloquialism and even advertising language in an effort to raise the profile of the marginalised voices of both Scots and women. Her most famous poetry collections include Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (1984), True Confessions and New Clichés (1985), Bagpipe Muzak (1991) and The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 was published by Polygon in 2003. She became Makar in 2011 after the death of Edwin Morgan.

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