Fugitive Colours

This stunning new collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as 'Connecting Cultures', written for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 or more personal works, 'Favourite Place', about holidays in the west coast with her late husband, this collection is beautiful, sensitive and brilliant.

Throughout her career Liz Lochhead has been described variously as a poet, feminist-playwright, translator and broadcaster but has said that 'when somebody asks me what I do I usually say writer. The most precious thing to me is to be a poet. If I were a playwright, I'd like to be a poet in the theatre.' Review: 'The most striking aspect of Fugitive Colours, as with all her work, is its directness.

She could be talking to the reader over a tearoom table, so conversational and confiding is its tone. Her eagerness to tell a story fills the pages' - Rosemary Goring, Herald 'An eclectic mix of the poignant, the quirky and the playful. ...Delighting in language and rhythm, and free with her allusions, she always makes her meaning clear' - Mark Fisher, Scotsman