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True Confessions and New Cliches Liz Lochhead

True Confessions and New Cliches By Liz Lochhead

True Confessions and New Cliches by Liz Lochhead


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Summary

This is a selection of Liz Lochead's raps, songs, sketches and monologues from her plays and revues.

True Confessions and New Cliches Summary

True Confessions and New Cliches by Liz Lochhead

In True Confessions & New Cliches, 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 favorites with the many fans who attend her public readings.

About Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead is the Scottish Makar (Poet Laureate) and is regarded as one of Scotland's best andmost popular poets and dramatists. Her poetry is characterized by a self-conscious effort to mimic the idioms of speech, adopting a range of spoken styles that include the lyrical use of cliche, rap, colloquialism and even advertising language in an effort to raise the profile of the marginalized voices of both Scots and women. Her most famous poetry collections include Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (1984), 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.

Additional information

GOR001939539
9780954407537
0954407539
True Confessions and New Cliches by Liz Lochhead
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Birlinn General
20031020
144
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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