Liz Lochhead alla Keats-Shelley house

Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead will be reading from her latest book, Una scelta, recently published by Argolibri in a bilingual version (English and Italian). The Italian versions of the poems will be read by Liz Lochhead's translator, Bernardino Nera.

LIZ LOCHHEAD, Scottish poet and playwright was born in 1947, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and taught art at schools in Glasgow and Bristol.

Her first collection of poems, Memo for Spring, was published in 1972 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her poetry has been published in a number of collections including Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1995). A performer as well as a poet, her revue Sugar and Spite was staged in 1978 with Marcella Evaristi.