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  1. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    The Edwin Morgan Trust has recordings of Edwin Morgan online, including a reading of “Cinquevalli”. Morgan had found the postcard &, “struck by the fact that [Cinquevalli] had been almost forgotten, after once enjoying world fame”, began writing the poem.

    edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/06/0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Cinquevalli

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  2. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    Cinquevalli in sepia
    looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
    Half faun, half military man…

    —Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli”
    published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

    Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/c

    #Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli

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