what but imagination could have read granite
boulders back to their molten roots?
And how far back was back, and how far on
would basalt still be basalt, iron iron?

—Edwin Morgan certainly though so, and was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth” (first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984)

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #EdwinMorgan #poetry #DeepTime #geology
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Pale yellow letters
humbly straggling across
the once brilliant red
of a broken shop-face
CONFECTIO
and a blur of children
at their games, passing…

—“To Joan Eardley” by Edwin Morgan
The artist Joan Eardley (1921–1963) was born #OTD, 18 May. Edwin Morgan owned her painting “Sweet Shop, Rotten Row, 1960–1961”, and donated it on his death to the Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Glasgow #art #womensart
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualexhibitions/thehunterianpoems/edwinmorgantojoaneardley/

It’s living with ships
makes a rough springtime
and who is safe
when they sing and blow
their music –

—Edwin Morgan, “Floating off to Timor”
Published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020
#Scottish #literature #Spring #poetry #EdwinMorgan
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967

I am waiting
for the foot to slide,
for the heart to seize,
for the leaping sinews to go slack,
for the fight to the death to be fought to the death…

—Edwin Morgan, “Hyena”
Published in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet 2020)

Happy #Hyena Day!

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #InternationalHyenaDay
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hyena/

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 free online
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/112964/1/112964.pdf

THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO EDWIN MORGAN
Edited by Alan Riach

Edwin 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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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic2/

“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 (though he didn’t turn up on telly until 1978). Another South Side boy, according to Wikipedia.”

—James McGonigal & John Coyle discuss Edwin Morgan as a teacher & a writer
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2020/04/in-touch-with-edwin-morgan/

👆“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. Out now!
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

…knew Glasgow – what? – knew Glasgow new – somehow …

“Edinburgh is a city which has never eaten the apple, but Glasgow has, and although it is deeper in sin it is readier for grace.”

—Morgan’s essay “Signs & Wonders”, on #Glasgow & #culture in 1965
#Scotland #Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #Sixties #1960s
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https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/04/in-touch-with-language/

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
Published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/seven-decades/

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are…

—Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”
#EdwinMorgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵

Morgan write “At Eighty” for his own 80th birthday
#Scottish #literature #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

A favourite.

#poem #poet #poetry #EdwinMorgan #writer #writing #PoetryForAll #love

A favourite.

#poetry #poem #poet #EdwinMorgan #PoetryForAll #love #writer #writing

“So what was Glasgow like to a young gay writer in that period from say the late 1930s through to the 1950s… You circumvent, you encode, you enfabulate… You work by methods not unlike those used by dissidents in authoritarian regimes.”
—Edwin Morgan, “Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms”, published in In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950–2005
#LGBTHistoryMonth 🏳️‍🌈 #Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Glasgow
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

Today, 13 January, is the feast day of St Mungo (AKA St Kentigern), patron saint of #Glasgow

—Edwin Morgan, “Colloquy in Glaschu”
in Centenary Selected Poems, Carcanet 2020
#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Saints
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Edwin Morgan’s “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”: as performed by the flite speech synthesizer and some shell scripts — https://scruss.com/blog/2022/12/25/edwin-morgans-the-computers-first-christmas-card/

#poetry #christmas #scotland #EdwinMorgan #tts

From the Edwin Morgan Trust on Twitter:

wrong track start again goodk ingwe ncesl asloo
kedou tonth efeas tofst ephph phphp hphph unjam

—‘The Computer’s Second Christmas Card’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990)

#Scottish #Christmas #poetry #concretepoetry

https://twitter.com/EdMorganTrust/status/1604784506262917120

BIRD CHERRY by ROSHNI GALLAGHER

Scotland's Makar, Kathleen Jamie, reads Bird Cherry, a poem by Roshni Gallagher, one of the co-winners of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize.

#poetry #scottishpoetry #edwinmorgan #kathleenjamie

https://youtube.com/shorts/2k5Cu-E8vBw

Poets:

#NormanMacCaig
#EdwinMorgan
#JaanKaplinski
#Stonehouse
#AudreLorde
#Issa
#YosanoAkiko