This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humor, and compassion of their vision. MacCaig's memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan's poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women's experience of them....

This is the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots, but retold by Scotland's unofficial Poet Laureate with a ferocious iconoclasm. Needless to say, the play ends when Mary Queen of Scots gets her head chopped off A modern Scottish classic, first staged at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1987, Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots is republished here in a revised version with a new introduction by the author. The play is enormously popular with Scottish schools and drama groups. It was originally published by Penguin.

Liz Lochhead s new collection encompasses a life enriched with people, places and relationships; it is with humor and empathy that these relationships are captured, remembered and honored in moments of joy and poignancy. There is sadness, truth, hope and optimism throughout the five sections in this collection, each is varied in scope but are woven together as part of a life. This stunning new collection marks the end of Liz Lochhead s term as Makar (Poet Laureate, 2011 2016) and features never before published work alongside poems written during her time as Makar."