Edwin Morgan

**Edwin George Morgan** OBE (27 Aprile 1920 &ndash; 17 August 2010) 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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