Liz Lochhead: 'You're stuck writing something until you go, "To hell with it, I'll tell the truth"'
The new Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry winner on learning how to be a Scottish writer and why becoming the national poet saved her lifeLiz Lochhead is one of nature's talkers, asking as many questions as she answers, and her anecdotes are thick with mentions of friends: good friends; dear friends; oldest, closest, best. It's impossible not to experience her conversation as an extension of her …