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“A poet of this parish who was universal in his outreach… A great humanist Scot who, despite all the pyrotechnics of his poetry, always wanted to explore existence & what it means to be alive.”
—from George Reid’s eulogy for Edwin Morgan
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Edwin Morgan died #OnThisDay, 19 August, 2010. “Riddle”, the final poem of Morgan’s final collection, 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 (Mariscat, 2010), is a translation of one of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book riddles, itself a translation of a Latin original by the poet Aldhelm (c639–709 CE)
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #translation #riddle #AngloSaxon #medieval
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Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020)A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay #Scotland #rewilding #EdwinMorgan
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That must have been a time of happiness.
The air was mild, the Campsie Fells had vines.
Dirigible parties left soft sky-signs
and bursts of fading music. Who could guess
what they might not accomplish…—Edwin Morgan, “A Golden Age”
from “Sonnets from Scotland”, published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #sonnet #sciencefiction #scifi #SciFiPoetry
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Happy World Snake Day – 16 July – to all who celebrate. Here’s Edwin Morgan’s “Siesta of a Hungarian Snake”, published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990) 🐍
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #snakes #snake #WorldSnakeDay
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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.
https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/06/02/eddie-morgan-selects-recordings-of-em-reading-his-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Cinquevalli
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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
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli
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A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry by Edwin Morgan – edited by Greg Thomas & Julie Johnstone – will be published in August 2026 by Reaktion Books
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/a-home-in-space
#Scottish #literature #poetry #concretepoetry #soundpoetry #visualpoetry #EdwinMorgan
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“He was an advocate of the new, & that made him stand out in a Scottish modernist literary milieu where there was a kind of gruff, backwards-looking impulse”
—Greg Thomas on A HOME IN SPACE, a new collection of Edwin Morgan’s concrete, visual & sound poetry
#Scottish #literature #poetry #concretepoetry #soundpoetry #visualpoetry #EdwinMorgan
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Congratulations to the six poets shortlisted for the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award!
✨Tom Bailey
✨Emmett Coleman
✨Zainab Imran
✨Flora Leask Arizpe
✨Kate Millar
✨Caitlin PalmerFind out more about the shortlist & read a selection of their poems on the Edwin Morgan Trust’s website:
https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/07/03/empa-2026-shortlist/
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James Hutton that true son of fire who said
to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…—Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984
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#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #20thcentury #RobertBurns #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology #sonnet
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Power From Things Not Declared
Poet, novelist & translator Christopher Whyte in conversation with Michael Shaw, reflecting on queerness, Glasgow & poetry with Edwin Morgan as a central figure
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https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/10/26/power-from-things-not-declared/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Glasgow #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Queer #QueerLit #QueerWriters #EdwinMorgan
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In a little rainy mist of white and grey
we sat under an old tree,
drank tea toasts to the powdery mountain…—Edwin Morgan, “The Picnic”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #tea #InternationalTeaDay
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Edwin Morgan: A Centenary Celebration
Through music, readings & reflections on Morgan’s life, this 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival event takes you on a beautiful journey into the mind of a Scottish poetic genius
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Presence, Process, Prize
“This collection of essays is intended to explore the world of Edwin Morgan & act as a companion to his multifaceted trajectory through space & time”
—read the Introduction to the INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO EDWIN MORGAN ☝️ online
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INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO EDWIN MORGAN
Ed. Alan RiachEdwin Morgan is one of the giants of modern poetry. In his long life he produced an incredible range of work, from the playful to the profound.
Available in print or online via Project MUSE
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Edwin Morgan: a poet of international stature
Professor Alan Riach discusses Edwin Morgan’s international context – from our 2020 online Schools Conference
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZGfaWVIgI4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WbTLaABqVVk2xHfJdHDtpms
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The Poetry of Edwin Morgan
Professor James McGonigal discusses Edwin Morgan’s poetry at our 2015 Schools Conference
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2XEkW0nZQ&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK
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“The poetry voice first for me. ‘The Death of Marilyn Monroe’, ‘Los Angeles!’ Blew my socks off! His voice always reminded me a bit of that of Ian McAskill the weatherman…Another South Side boy”
—James McGonigal & John Coyle discuss Edwin Morgan
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2020/04/in-touch-with-edwin-morgan/
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👆 “Signs & Wonders” is one of 47 pieces of Morgan’s prose – journalism, book & theatre reviews, essays & lectures, drama & radio scripts, forewords & afterwords – collected in EDWIN MORGAN: IN TOUCH WITH LANGUAGE, ed. John Coyle & James McGonigal
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/
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“Climbing statues and screaming may be more in the expected Glasgow image of hearty gregariousness than an andante at Pollok – yet both are there.”
—Read Edwin Morgan’s 1965 essay “Signs & Wonders” on Glasgow & culture, via Books From Scotland
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…we turned it over, read easily One Pound,
but then the shock of Latin, like a gloss,
Respublica Scotorum, sent across
such ages as we guessed but never found…—“‘The Coin’… slips infinite riches of cognitive possibility into the reader’s mental pockets”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/11/new-currency-or-old-the-coin-by-edwin-morgan/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #scifi #sciencefiction #timetravel
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—We come in peace from the third planet.
Would you take us to your leader?Edwin Morgan’s science-fiction poem “The First Men on Mercury” is presented here in comic-strip form, by the amazing metaphrog
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Download it free here:
https://metaphrog.com/the-first-men-on-mercury/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #scifi #sciencefiction #comics #comicstrip
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In this podcast for the Edwin Morgan Trust, Ishbel McFarlane explores the personal & professional world that influenced Edwin Morgan – Scotland’s most influential poet of the last 50 years. Looking at LGBTQ+ history, language learning, translation, & more
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https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2021/03/01/ishbel-mcfarlane-edwin-morgans-second-life-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #LGBTQ #Glasgow #translation #podcast #language
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But does every man feel like this at forty –
I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his
heady light, the stunning plunging canyons, beauty…—Morgan’s “The Second Life”, the title poem to his 1968 breakthrough collection, reflects changes in his own life, in Glasgow, in Scotland & the world
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At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu…—written for his 70th birthday, Edwin Morgan’s “Seven Decades” takes us through key moments in the poet’s life
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/seven-decades/
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Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea…—Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”: a poem written for his own 80th birthday
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #birthday #80thbirthday
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Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)
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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale
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You can listen to Edwin Morgan read “Pilate at Fortingall”, along with other poems & recordings, online, courtesy of the Edwin Morgan Trust
https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/06/02/eddie-morgan-selects-recordings-of-em-reading-his-poems/ -
Morgan’s poem ☝️ helped inspire the video A NEW GENERATION, edited by Tako Taal & featuring readings & reflections from previous Edwin Morgan Poetry Award winners & nominees Harry Josephine Giles, Sophie Collins, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Niall Campbell, & Alycia Pirmohamed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mfDv5O9vg
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #archive #archives #ScottishArchivesDay