4 February 2016, 6.30-8 pm, free.
The Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, EH8 8DT
At the first of our Spring 2016 seminars we will explore the development of female voices in Scottish poetry across the late twentieth century and beyond, focusing especially on the contribution of the current Scottish Makar Liz Lochhead. Critic Glenda Norquay will discuss some of the most important creative and historical projects which brought women’s writing to the centre of discussions about Scottish poetry from the 1970s onwards. Colin Waters will talk to Liz about the Scottish poetry scene in the 1970s, and the development of women's writing from that time onwards.
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Speaker Abstract and Biographies
Glenda Norquay
"Scottish Women's Writing Since the 1970s"
One of the unfortunate legacies of the 20th-century Scottish poetic 'renaissance' was its domination by a handful of male voices. But since the 1970s there has been an even more significant renaissance, this time in writing by women, accompanied by a renewed concern for the historical visibility of Scottish women writers. This talk will discuss some aspects of this transformation in the literary environment, including the pivotal impact of Liz Lochhead's work.
Biographical Notes
Glenda Norquay holds the Chair of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. A native of Dundee and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Scottish writing. She is editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing and has published extensively in this area. Her other research interest is Robert Louis Stevenson: she published Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading in 2007. She is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, from January to April 2016.
Liz Lochhead was born in 1947 in Newarthill, Lanarkshire. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art. The first work that brought Lochhead to wider notice was Memo for Spring, which was published in 1972 at a time when the Scottish poetry scene was largely male-dominated. Her collections of poetry include Dreaming Frankenstein (1984), True Confessions and New Clichés (1985) and Bagpipe Muzak (1991). Lochhead is also a successful playwright, her productions numbering Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (1987) and a Scots-language adaptation of Moliere’s Tartuffe (1985). Her latest is Edwin Morgan’s Dreams – and Other Nightmares, a play about her friend and fellow poet, Edwin Morgan. He was Scotland’s first Makar, or National Poet, and when he died, she succeeded him in January, 2011.
Book tickets through the Scottish Poetry Library Eventbrite page
Speaker Abstract and Biographies
Glenda Norquay
"Scottish Women's Writing Since the 1970s"
One of the unfortunate legacies of the 20th-century Scottish poetic 'renaissance' was its domination by a handful of male voices. But since the 1970s there has been an even more significant renaissance, this time in writing by women, accompanied by a renewed concern for the historical visibility of Scottish women writers. This talk will discuss some aspects of this transformation in the literary environment, including the pivotal impact of Liz Lochhead's work.
Biographical Notes
Glenda Norquay holds the Chair of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. A native of Dundee and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Scottish writing. She is editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing and has published extensively in this area. Her other research interest is Robert Louis Stevenson: she published Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading in 2007. She is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, from January to April 2016.
Liz Lochhead was born in 1947 in Newarthill, Lanarkshire. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art. The first work that brought Lochhead to wider notice was Memo for Spring, which was published in 1972 at a time when the Scottish poetry scene was largely male-dominated. Her collections of poetry include Dreaming Frankenstein (1984), True Confessions and New Clichés (1985) and Bagpipe Muzak (1991). Lochhead is also a successful playwright, her productions numbering Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (1987) and a Scots-language adaptation of Moliere’s Tartuffe (1985). Her latest is Edwin Morgan’s Dreams – and Other Nightmares, a play about her friend and fellow poet, Edwin Morgan. He was Scotland’s first Makar, or National Poet, and when he died, she succeeded him in January, 2011.
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