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A Book of Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

A Book of Lives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-01
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  • Publisher: Carcanet

No wonder Edwin Morgan was Scotland's best-loved poet. His poems teem with lives and loves and are marked by an unusual love of the present and the future. He finds forms for themes and ideas just out of reach. In this collection poems both profound and witty are to be found: occasional verse that transcends its occasion, explorations of the human condition conducted with a virtuosic lightness of touch. A Book of Lives draws together the themes that inform his poetic world. The largest vistas of human history, from twenty billion years BC to 9/11 and the 'war on terror'; Scotland from Bannockburn to the opening of the Scottish parliament; portraits - of Rimbaud, the emperor Hirohito, Raeburn's skating Reverend Walker... Poems for birthdays and elegies celebrate friends; a dramatic dialogue about cancer sets personal experience in a wry evolutionary context. At the heart of the collection, a major sequence, 'Love and a Life', affirms the inextinguishable energies of love and art.

New Selected Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

New Selected Poems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-27
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  • Publisher: Carcanet

Edwin Morgan's original Selected Poems was published in 1985. It became something of a classic, selling in excess of 20,000 copies. But 1985 is a long time in the world of so inventive and irrepressible a writer as Edwin Morgan. He has published a new Collected and several volumes since then. The millenium New Selected brings readers up to date. It contains most of the 1985 volume, to which Morgan adds later poems. The complete sequence of Sonnets from Scotland appears in book form for the first time, gaining in relevance now that Scotland's Parliament is established. Hitherto uncollected too is the ambitious and magnificent Planet Wave, a suite of ten poems covering the history of the earth from the Big Bang to the time of Copernicus. It was set to music by the jazz saxophonist and composer Tommy Smith. Morgan is unique in the courage of his experiments, his openness to the poetries of other languages and to science and science fiction. However spectacular his leaps in time and space, he always comes back to ground in Scotland, in Glasgow, in a present tense which he inhabits with exuberance and hope, and without cultural regrets.

Cathures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Cathures

Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects, social, psychological, philosophical. Some of the poems have been set to music, both jazz and classical. In many ways it is a book of voices and observation, a book of accessible storytelling.

Unknown is Best
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

Unknown is Best

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Beyond the Last Dragon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 597

Beyond the Last Dragon

Edwin Morgan's restless imagination moved easily between multiple worlds, voices and identities. His own life story, told here for the first time, also reveals a range of identities - as academic, cultural activist, radical writer, international traveller, gay man and national poet. These identities were sometimes in conflict, or kept hidden and apart. Beyond the Last Dragon, written with his full support, explores hitherto unknown archive resources and creative work. It recounts an amazing and sometimes troubled career, using the poet's own letters, poems and plays from the 1930s to the present day to uncover the origins of his remarkable - and life-long - inventiveness and flair. All this is set against Edwin Morgan's moving struggle against 'the last dragon' of cancer, and to remain creatively alive in the face of suffering in the final years of his life. This prize-winning biography was published just days after the poet's death. James McGonigal now adds a new chapter to describe subsequent events.

Edwin Morgan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

Edwin Morgan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-05
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  • Publisher: Polygon

Introduced by Jackie Kay, this selection of poems include the famous 'Strawberries' and 'One Cigarette' and four from Morgan's autobiographical sequence, Love and a Life - love in all its aspects.

Sonnets from Scotland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 76

Sonnets from Scotland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Beyond the Sun
  • Language: en

Beyond the Sun

For years, Scotland has nurtured the connection between literature and art. This collection adds a further dimension to this flowering connection between poetry and painting. Topping the list of Scotland's favourite paintings is Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross, but also included are poignant classics such as Avril Paton's Windows in the West and Sir Henry Raeburn's Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch. Edwin Morgan, Scotland's National Poet, was so fascinated and inspired by the paintings that he wrote a poem to honour each one. The result is a wonderfully moving collection.

About Edwin Morgan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

About Edwin Morgan

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