Eddie Linden

**Edward Sean Linden** (an haife shi **John Edward Glackin** ; 5 ga Mayu 1935 - 19 ga Nuwamba 2023) mawaki ne ɗan ƙasar Scotland-Irish, editan mujallar adabi, kuma mai fafutukar siyasa. Daga 1969 zuwa 2002, ya buga kuma ya gyara mujallar waƙoƙi *ta Aquarius*, wadda *jaridar The Irish Post* ta ce ta sanya shi "ɗaya daga cikin manyan mutane a fagen waƙoƙin duniya". Mujallar ta kasance mai mahimmanci a ci gaban mawakan Birtaniya, Irish, da na ƙasashen duniya kuma an bayyana ta a matsayin "kyauta ta sarauta ga adabi — renon da haɓaka baiwar waƙa".   

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Linden John Edward Glackin a Motherwell, Lanarkshire, a ranar 5 ga Mayu, 1935, ɗan da iyayensa 'yan Ireland Elizabeth Glackin da Joseph Watters suka haifa. Linden bai taɓa sanin ubansa na haihuwa ba.   An canza sunansa zuwa Edward Sean Linden bayan Mary Glenn da mai hakar ma'adinai na kwal Eddie Linden sun ɗauke shi, wanda ya ɗauke shi a matsayin iyayensa na gaske; mahaifinsa mai riƙon sa a zahiri yana da alaƙa da Elizabeth ta hanyar aure. An rene Linden a Roman Katolika a Bellshill . Mary ta mutu a shekarar 1944 kuma Eddie ya auri wata mata 'yar Presbyterian wadda ba ta son ƙaramin Linden. Ta kasa sanya shi a gidan marayu, don haka ta tura shi gidan marayu da 'Yan'uwa Mata Masu Jin Daɗi ke kula da shi.   Ya yi karatu a makarantar Holy Family da ke Mossend da makarantar St Patrick da ke New Stevenston . 

A lokacin da yake ɗan shekara 14, an "saki" Linden daga gidan marayu, kuma sau da yawa ba ya da gida. An sanya shi aiki a wurin haƙar kwal, sannan ya yi aiki a wani injin niƙa ƙarfe bayan an kore shi daga haƙar ma'adinai. An kuma ɗauke shi aiki a matsayin mai karɓar tikiti da mai ɗaukar kaya a tashar jirgin ƙasa ta Hamilton West . An ƙi sa a tilasta masa shiga soja saboda an ɗauke shi da ƙarancin kiba kuma yana fama da ciwon mara . Tarbiyar Linden ta addini ta sa ya sha wahala da luwaɗinsa, har ma ya nemi magani daga likitoci, amma ya yi watsi da hakan bayan ya yi jayayya da ma'aikatan lafiya.

## Aikin adabi

### ''Aquarius''
Linden ya fara shirya karatun waƙoƙi a gidan giya na Lamb &amp;amp; Flag da ke Covent Garden, kuma a shekarar 1969, ya fara mujallar waƙoƙi *ta Aquarius*, wadda ta ƙunshi marubuta masu tasowa. Mawakin John Heath-Stubbs, da kuma gudummawar abokinsa, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo Harold Pinter suka taimaka masa; an ce Linden shi ne abin da ya ba wa halayyar Spooner kwarin gwiwa a cikin wasan Pinter mai *suna No Man's Land .* Abokan mawakan George Barker da Peter Porter suma sun ba da damar buga ayyukansu kyauta. Fitowar farko ta ƙunshi gudummawar Heath-Stubbs, Barker, Stevie Smith da Kathleen Raine . 

Ana buga mujallar duk bayan shekaru kaɗan kuma an buga ta zuwa bugu 26 gaba ɗaya.   Daga cikin wasu, *Aquarius* ta buga ayyukan Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Scott da Kathleen Jamie . A cikin littafin *Times Literary Supplement* a shekarar 2019, James Campbell ya bayyana cewa "ainihin gyaran" an yi shi ne ta hanyar mutane kamar Barker, Heath-Stubbs da Douglas Dunn, wani mawaƙi ɗan Scotland.  Linden ya tara kuɗi don ci gaba da buga mujallar tsawon shekaru, bayan ya fara da jarin £4 da kuma aro daga wani abokinsa. Haka kuma fitaccen mawaƙi John Betjeman ya taimaka masa, wanda ya aika da £5 don "tsohon *Aquarius* mai kyau" kowace Kirsimeti (idan aka daidaita shi da hauhawar farashin kaya, wannan adadin kuɗin zai kasance mafi daraja yayin da Betjeman ke raye). 

## Rayuwar mutum da mutuwa
Linden, wacce 'yar luwaɗi ce, ba ta taɓa yin abokiyar zama ko aure ba.  A wata hira da ta yi da *The Tablet* a shekarar 2017, Linden ta ce, "An siffanta ni a matsayin wanda bai yarda da Allah ba, amma hakan ba daidai ba ne. Ni ɗan Katolika ne wanda yake ganin yana da wuya in yi imani da Allah. Akwai ranar da nake gudu da duwatsun rosary da makamantansu, amma ba na yin hakan yanzu." 

A shekarar 2020, an gano yana da cutar Alzheimer .  A ranar 19 ga Nuwamba, 2023, Linden ya mutu a wani gidan kula da tsofaffi a Maida Vale, yammacin London, yana da shekaru 88, sakamakon tsufa da cutar Alzheimer.     An yi jana'izarsa a ranar 8 ga Disamba, tare da kone gawarwakinsa a wurin ƙona gawawwakin mutane na West London da ke Kensal Green .  A cikin wani labarin mutuwarsa, *jaridar Irish Times* ta rubuta, "Da rasuwarsa, wani zamani na waƙoƙin Burtaniya bayan yaƙi ya ƙare." 

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