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Source: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
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Source: Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, Edwin Morgan Scrapbook 11 (1953-55), pp. 2146-7
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Source: Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, Edwin Morgan Scrapbook 10 (1953-55), page 1953
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Source: Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, Edwin Morgan Scrapbook 11 (1953-55), pp. 2146-7
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Source: University of Glasgow
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Source: University of Glasgow
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Source: University of Glasgow
Edwin Morgan's work covers a wide range of subjects and styles. While addressing issues relating to Scotland he contributed the poem of dedication at the inauguration of the Scottish Parliament; he was equally comfortable in his commentaries on world issues and events, such as, the Sharpville massacre in South Africa, American popular culture, science fiction and space exploration.
Edwin Morgan
"I think of poetry as partly an instrument of exploration, like a spaceship, into new fields of feeling or experience (or old fields which become new in new contexts and environments)"
His first book of poetry, The Vision of Cathkin Braes, was published in 1952 and he was a pioneer of concrete poetry in the 1960s, wrote opera librettos, and translated poetry and drama from Russian, Hungarian, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon. His output was prodigious.
Morgan was the first Poet Laureate of Glasgow from 1999 to 2005 and the Scots Makar from 2004 to 2010. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 2000, and in the following year received the prestigious Weidenfeld Prize for Translation.
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