Edwin Morgan

Edwin George Morgan OBE (27 Aprile 1920 – 17 August 2010)Professor Edwin Morgan: Writer celebrate as ane o the best Scots poets o the 20t century, The Independent  wis a Scots makar an translator that wis associate wi the Scots Renaissance. He is widely kent as ane o the foremaist Scots poets o the 20t century. In 1999, Morgan wis makkit the first Glesca Poet Laureate. In 2004, he wis named as the first Scots naitional poet: the Scots Makar.

Ane o his poems "Poem for the Opening of the Scottish Parliament" wis rade by Liz Lochhead at the appenin o the Scots Pairliament biggin oan 9 October 2004. She becam the Scots Makar hersel.

His maist kenspeckle warks are aftimes taucht in schuils 

 "Winter"
 "In the Snackbar"
 "Glasgow 5 March 1971"
 "Good Friday"
 "Trio"
 Glasgow Sonnet (I) 
 "Starlings in George Square" (1968)
 "The Death of Marilyn Monroe" (1962)
 "A Good Year for Death" (1977)

 Early life 
Morgan wis born in Glesga on 27 Apryle 1920 tae Presbyterian parents. His faither wis ae clerk an then director fur steel an airn merchants Arnott, Young and Co. He convinced his parents tae pit up the membership fee fur sindry buik clubs ootthrou the city an tuik pairteecular interest in poetry, wi the Faber Book of Modern Verse bein ae "revelation" tae him.

 Warks 

 Buiks 

 Dies Irae, 1952 – first published in Poems of Thirty Years, Carcanet New Press, 1982
 Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English, Hand and Flower Press, 1952
 The Vision of Cathkin Braes and Other Poems, William MacLellan, 1952
 The Cape of Good Hope (limited edition), Pound Press, 1955
 Poems from Eugenio Montale (translator), School of Art, University of Reading, 1959
 Sovpoems: Brecht, Neruda, Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Mayakovsky, Martynov, Yevtushenko (translator), Migrant Press, 1961
 Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems (editor), Collins, 1963
 Starryveldt, Eugen Gomringer Press, 1965
 Emergent Poems, Hansjörg Mayer, 1967
 Gnomes, Akros publications, 1968
 The Second Life, Edinburgh University Press, 1968
 Selected Poems of Sándor Weöres and Selected Poems of Ferenc Juhász (translator and introduction for Sándor Weöres), Penguin, 1970
 The Horseman's Word: Concrete Poems, Akros, 1970
 Twelve Songs, Castlelaw Press, 1970
 Glasgow Sonnets, Castlelaw Press, 1972
 Instamatic Poems, Ian McKelvie, 1972
 Wi the haill voice: 25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky (translator and glossary), Carcanet, 1972
 From Glasgow to Saturn, Carcanet, 1973
 Nuspeak8: Being a Visual Poem by Edwin Morgan, Scottish Arts Council, 1973
 The Whittrick: a Poem in Eight Dialogues, Akros, 1973
 Essays, Carcanet, 1974
 Fifty Renascence Love-Poems (translator), Whiteknights Press, 1975
 Rites of Passage (translator), 1976
 Edwin Morgan: an interview by Marshall Walker, Akros, 1977
 The New Divan, 1977
 Selected poems by August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (translator), Castlelaw Press, 1978
 Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems, Third Eye Centre, 1979
 Scottish Satirical Verse (compiler), Carcanet, 1980
 Grendel, Mariscat, 1982
 Poems of Thirty Years, Carcanet New Press, 1982
 The Apple-Tree (modern version of a medieval Dutch play), Third Eye Centre, 1982
 Takes/Grafts, Mariscat, 1983
 Sonnets from Scotland, Mariscat, 1984
 Selected Poems, 1985
 From the Video Box, Mariscat, 1986
 Newspoems, Wacy, 1987
 Tales from Limerick Zoo (illustrated by David Neilson), Mariscat, 1988
 Themes on a Variation, 1988
 Collected Poems (republished 1996 with index), 1990
 Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature, 1990
 Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on his Work and Life (edited by Hamish Whyte), Polygon, 1990
 Hold Hands Among the Atoms: 70 Poems, Mariscat, 1991
 Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac: A New Verse Translation (translator), 1992
 Fragments by József Attila (translator), Morning Star Publications, 1992
 MacCaig, Morgan, Lochhead: Three Scottish Poets (edited and introduced by Roderick Watson), Canongate, 1992
 Cecilia Vicuña:PALABRARmas/WURDWAPPINschaw, Morning Star Publications, 1994
 Sweeping Out the Dark, 1994
 Long Poems – But How Long? (W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture), University of Wales, Swansea, 1995
 Collected Translations, 1996
 St. Columba: The Maker on High (translator), Mariscat, 1997
 Virtual and Other Realities, 1997
 Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus (a new version), Canongate, 1999
 Demon, Mariscat, 1999
 A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus, Carcanet, 2000
 Jean Racine: Phaedra (translation of Phèdre), 2000 (Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize)
 New Selected Poems, 2000
 Attila József: Sixty Poems (translator), Mariscat, 2001
 Cathures, 2002
 Love and a Life: 50 Poems by Edwin Morgan, Mariscat, 2003
 The Battle of Bannockburn (translator), SPL in association with Akros and Mariscat, 2004
 Tales from Baron Munchausen, Mariscat, 2005
 The Play of Gilgamesh, 2005
 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie, Enitharmon, 2006
 A Book of Lives, 2007

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