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One of a series of 12 herm portrait busts of Scottish poets, sited along the pathway at regular intervals on both banks. Each plinth has two information boards attached, one a short biography of the poet and the second an example of their work. This project celebrates great poets and their poetry and provides a series of commissions for Scottish sculptors. The project added four herms per year over three years.

Title

Liz Lochhead (b.1947)

Date

2001–2002

Medium

bronze & concrete

Measurements

H 150 x W 30 x D 32 cm (E)

Accession number

EH12_GB_S002

Acquisition method

New Edinburgh Limited

Work type

Bust

Owner

Edinburgh Park

Custodian

Edinburgh Park

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

Liz Lochhead / Liz Lochhead: born Motherwell 1947. / Trained at Glasgow school of Art, Lochhead published her first collection, Memo for Spring, in 1971. with immediate / success. In the predominantly male domain / of Scottish poetry, here was a fresh voice, of / women speaking to women, speaking for / women. Her poems, prose and drama escape boundaries of each genre, using / the speech she hears around her, poignant / and humorous. Questioning assumptions / about female and Scottish identity; / Lochhead has forged powerful and / personal theatrical pieces. Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off and her translation of Tariuffe ar written in Scots, her poems in Scots and English: 'To Tell the stories was her work,' these stories / grounded in recognisable lives are told with tenderness and irony. Lochhead / draws on ballad and fairytale to give these a deeper life, often a darker one, She has / been a liberating, inspiring literary presence.

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