Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead

In Duffy’s most recent poetry collection, The Bees, there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, poems of political anger; her celebrated ‘Last Post’, written for the last surviving soldiers to fight in the First World War; and elegies for beloved friends and - most movingly - her own mother. Clarke’s most recent books are a collection of poems, A Recipe for Water, and a prose collection, At the Source: A Writer’s Year. Her latest book, Ice, is due later this year. Lochhead’s A Choosing is a stunning new collection of selected works from one of Scotland’s most loved writers.