True Confessions New Cliches

by Liz Lochhead

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.

True Confessions New Cliches

Author: Liz Lochhead

Publisher: Polygon

ISBN: 9780954407537

Page: 144

View: 376

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.

Poetry Off the Page

by Laura Severin

aLiz. Lochhead«s Lady Writer Talkin« Blues,« True Confessions and New
Clichés (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1985) 37. ... Girl«s Confession,« True Confessions
and New Clichés (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1985) 11. Brennan mentions this costume
: 4.

Poetry Off the Page

Author: Laura Severin

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1351910604

Page: 128

View: 367

This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, the chapters trace how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties regarding women's representation: from simply presenting difference in the case of Mew and Wickham, to deconstructing difference in the case of Sitwell and Smith, to avoiding the recapture of cultural imagery in the case of Lochhead and Kay. Laura Severin claims that twentieth-century British women poets have been neglected by both feminist and more traditional literary critics because they cannot be read within available literary frameworks. Feminist criticism, in particular, has overlooked the value of other poetic ancestries by locating the only radical tradition of modern poetry in fractured form. At least one alternative radical tradition can be found in a narrative and performed poetry that maximizes its transgressive potential with multiple framing devices. Though a female poet always experiences difficulty in controlling both cultural imagery and her own public presentation, these framing devices work together both to deconstruct the essentialized category of woman and to recover the multiplicity of women's experience.

A History of Scottish Women s Writing

by Douglas Gifford

Hence True Confessions ' and the technique was ' taking the ( gentle ) mickey out
of women ( i . e . ourselves ) ' . 19 The tautology of ' true confessions and the
oxymoron of ' new clichés ' , signal the artfulness with which these raps , songs ...

A History of Scottish Women s Writing

Author: Douglas Gifford

Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

ISBN:

Page: 716

View: 586

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

Contemporary Poets

by Thomas Riggs

Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems . Edinburgh , UniverFrankergh
Press , 19 Clichés . Edin Poetry True Confessions and New Clichés . Edinburgh ,
University of Edinburgh Press , 1985 . Bagpipe Muzak , London , Penguin , 1991
.

Contemporary Poets

Author: Thomas Riggs

Publisher: Detroit, MI : St. James Press

ISBN:

Page: 1336

View: 550

Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of poets from around the world, written by subject experts.

A Choosing

by Liz Lochhead

She is a natural storyteller, and her instinctive feel for rhythm and voice constantly delight. In A Choosing, she presents a crafted, personal selection of poems published over the last four decades.

A Choosing

Author: Liz Lochhead

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

ISBN: 0857901044

Page: 104

View: 757

'A career-capturing anthology' - Scottish Review of Books 'Delightful' - Scotsman Liz Lochhead, former Makar (Scotland's Poet Laureate, 2011-2016) is a writer and performer of immense warmth, wit and tenderness. She is a natural storyteller, and her instinctive feel for rhythm and voice constantly delight. In A Choosing, she presents a crafted, personal selection of poems published over the last four decades. Love and memory are the driving forces behind these poems, which range in theme from language to landscape, heartache to history, writing to womanhood. At times poignant, at others funny, always heartfelt and full of verve, A Choosing is a celebration of one of Britain's finest contemporary poets.

Mary Shelley in Her Times

by Betty T. Bennett

Betty T. Bennett, Stuart Curran. This is the way the Scottish poet Liz Lochhead,
one of the most popular contemporary British women poets, begins her poem ''
True Confessions,'' which opens her collection True Confessions and New
Clichés, ...

Mary Shelley in Her Times

Author: Betty T. Bennett

Publisher: JHU Press

ISBN: 0801874629

Page: 328

View: 414

Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley, emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. Mary Shelley in Her Times brings fresh insight to the life and work of an often neglected or misunderstood writer who, the editors remind us, spent nearly three decades at the center of England's literary world during the country's profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley's neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include Mary Shelley's work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband's poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer. This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.

The Reader s Companion to Twentieth century Writers

by Peter Parker

In True Confessions and New Clichés she selected the best of the raps , songs ,
sketches and monologues from her plays and revues . In characters such as Mrs
Abernethy with her shortbread , and Sharon who has a crush on the English ...

The Reader s Companion to Twentieth century Writers

Author: Peter Parker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN:

Page: 825

View: 898

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell provides a concise overview of a popular therapeutic approach, starting with the ABCDE Model of Emotional Disturbance and Change. Written by leading REBT specialists, Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, the book goes on to explain the core of the therapeutic process: - Assessment - Disputing - Homework - Working through - Promoting self-change. As an introduction to the basics of the approach, this updated and revised edition of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell is the ideal first text and a springboard to further study.

Allen s Dictionary of English Phrases

by Robert Allen

Liz Lochhead True Confessions and New Clichés 1985 I didn't know where to
look, and that bizzum just sat there cool as a cucumber wolfing down my
Celebration Chile Con Carne Surprise. cool Britannia a phrase embodying the
revival of ...

Allen s Dictionary of English Phrases

Author: Robert Allen

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 0141917687

Page: 832

View: 293

Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.

Allen s Dictionary of English Phrases

by R. E. Allen

Allen s Dictionary of English Phrases

Author: R. E. Allen

Publisher: Penguin Group

ISBN:

Page: 805

View: 306

Allen's Dictionary of English Phrasesis the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we've been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen's Dictionary of English Phrasesis part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world - making knowledge everybody's property.

Liz Lochhead s Voices

by Liz Lochhead

1981 1982 1982 – 4 1983 School of Art . This year and the next , lengthy periods
in New York , where she almost goes to live . ... Writes and performs True
Confessions with Siobhan Redmond and Esther Allan at the Tron Theatre Club ,
Glasgow , in August , and ... True Confessions and New Clichés published in July
.

Liz Lochhead s Voices

Author: Liz Lochhead

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 198

View: 294

This is the first substantial study of the immensely popular writer and dramatist, Liz Lochhead. It examines the full range of her poetry and drama and supplies a variety of contexts - biographical, feminist and theatrical among others - in which her work can be read, heard, viewed and relished. One of the few books devoted to the work of a Scottish woman writer, and one of an even smaller number dealing in detail with contemporary Scottish drama, Liz Lochhead's Voices raises significant questions both for women's studies and Scottish literature in general. It includes the only extensive bibliography of Lochhead's writings, and is written in an accessible style which will appeal both to the student and to the general reader.

Best Verse

by

... monologues and performance pieces , many of which are collected in True
Confessions and New Cliches ( Polygon ... Her latest performance pieces ,
dramatic monologues , and poems are collected in Bagpipe Muzak ( Penguin ,
1991 ) .

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The Colour of Black and White

by Liz Lochhead

The colour of both the black and the white. The collaboration with the printmaker Willie Rodger was also an essential part of the making of this book.

The Colour of Black and White

Author: Liz Lochhead

Publisher: Birlinn

ISBN: 0857900099

Page: 144

View: 684

The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead's first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984. The poems within this remarkable collection are often poems of love or death and iconic figures, Jungian archetypes, animus figures with strong outlines, harsh comfort and, often, voices of their own which dominate the first, the 'title', section of the book. Here you can find poems that are both autobiographical or entirely fictional set in Liz Lochhead's native rural/industrial Lanarkshire. There are also poems dedicated to other poets and a section of the rude and the rhyming, the out-loud, boldly revealing Lochhead's interest in 'unrespectable' poetry, in black prison 'toasts', in recitations, folk-poems and music hall monologues. The colour of both the black and the white. The collaboration with the printmaker Willie Rodger was also an essential part of the making of this book. Lochhead, long an admirer of Rodger's work, felt strongly that he was a kindred spirit and his poetically pared down and essential lino cuts accentuate the positive and the negative, the black and the white.

Contemporary Scottish Women Writers

by Aileen Christianson

... music - hall aesthetics can be found ' , generating experience for audiences
that is ' not private , but rather communal and consensual ' . 18 Lochhead ' s
performance pieces in True Confessions and New Clichés ( also incorporating '
Sugar ...

Contemporary Scottish Women Writers

Author: Aileen Christianson

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 186

View: 162

These essays fill a gap in critical response to contemporary Scottish women writers.

The Joke s on Us

by Morwenna Banks

... Carla Lane for The Liver Birds Jenny Lecoat for The Willy Song Helen Lederer
for stand - up routine extract Sue Limb for The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere Liz
Lochhead for True Confessions from True Confessions and New Cliches
Macmillan ...

The Joke s on Us

Author: Morwenna Banks

Publisher: Unwin Hyman

ISBN:

Page: 294

View: 308

Poem Purpose and Place

by Colin Nicholson

A developing attraction for live performance , evidenced in the raps and
monologues which comprise True Confessions and New Clichés ( 1985 ) , 4
brought some of these issues into sharper relief . [ LL ] If an actress performs a
poem like ...

Poem Purpose and Place

Author: Colin Nicholson

Publisher: Edinburgh : Polygon

ISBN:

Page: 254

View: 779

Waterstone s Guide to Books

by Waterstone & Co

75 LEONARD , TOM ( 1944 - ) Using Glasgow speech patterns to create new
forms on the page , Leonard does not merely question but totally rejects
established literary ... 95 True Confessions and New Clichés [ XQ0276 ] Polygon
pbk pbk .

Waterstone s Guide to Books

Author: Waterstone & Co

Publisher:

ISBN: 9780951258989

Page: 1658

View: 841

British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II

by John Stanley Bull

82 - 117 ; Cuba , in New Connections : New Plays for Young People ( London :
Faber & Faber , 1997 ) , pp . ... True Confessions do New Clichés ( Edinburgh :
Polygon , 1985 ) ; Tartuffe : A Translation into Scots from the Original by Molière ...

British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II

Author: John Stanley Bull

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

ISBN:

Page: 461

View: 621

Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.