She recently completed a five year term (2011-2016) as the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland. She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2015, receiving it in February from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Her books of poetry include A Choosing (Selected Poems) 2011, The Colour of Black & White, 2004, and Dreaming Frankenstein, 1983, all still in print and available from Polygon/Birlinn. A frequent broadcaster, especially on radio, Liz has in her long career always been a performance-poet and has appeared at literary festivals, humble pubs and arts centres all over the UK and the world -- currently often with Steve Kettley on sax in their wee show Somethings Old, Something’s New. Her Lyceum credits include: Dracula, Tartuffe, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Miseryguts, Britannia Rules, Three Sisters, Blood and Ice, Educating Agnes.