Edwin Morgan

(born 27 April 1920 - ) - Rutherglen, Glasgow

Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan was Glasgow's first Poet Laureate, in 1999; five years later he was named as the Scottish Makar (Scotland's National Poet). He studied and later taught English at Glasgow University, although he retired in 1980 to write full-time. Since then, Morgan has worked as a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University and the University of Wales. He writes poetry, drama and literary criticism, and has also translated poetry from many languages, included Russian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and French. In 1997, Edwin Morgan was even awarded The Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his services to Hungarian literature.

Morgan is noted for his range of literary styles, from sonnets to concrete poems.

  • Cover scan of Beyond The Sun
    Add to Basket
    £9.99
    Beyond The Sun: Scotland's Favourite Paintings - Hardback
    For years Scotland has nurtured the relationship between literature and art. This collection features the ten favourite paintings in Scotland, accompanied by a poem, each written by Edwin Morgan, which complement the painting.
  • Cover scan of A Book Of Lives
    Add to Basket
    £9.95
    A Book Of Lives - Paperback
    Edwin Morgan, Scotland's poet laureate, ia an internationally renowned and widely anthologised writer. This is his first new collection of poems in over four years.
  • Cover scan of Collected Poems
    Add to Basket
    £19.95
    Collected Poems - Paperback
    This volume includes 'Poems of Thirty Years' (1982) and 'Themes on a Variation' (1988), together with some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
  • Cover scan of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac
    Add to Basket
    £8.95
    Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac - Paperback
    This version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' has been translated by Edwin Morgan into Glaswegian Scots. There is also an introduction that sets the play in its time and discusses the translation. The Communicado Theatre's production of this verse rendering won the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe First award.
  • Cover scan of New Selected Poems
    Add to Basket
    £12.95
    New Selected Poems - Paperback
    This collection contains most of the work from Selected Poems of 1985, together with later material and Planet Wave, a suite of ten poems covering the history of the earth from the Big Bang to the time of Copernicus.
  • Cover scan of Virtual And Other Realities
    Add to Basket
    £9.95
    Virtual And Other Realities - Paperback
    Edwin Morgan, formerly a lecturer in English at Glasgow University, is the author of Sweeping Out the Dark and also translated Rostand's Cyrano into Scots. Taking Scottish and European perspectives, this is his latest poetry collection.

Bibliography

  • Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English - 1952
  • Starryveld - Switzerland, 1965
  • Emergent poems - Germany, 1967
  • Gnomes - 1968
  • The Second Life - 1968
  • The Horseman's Word: A Sequence of Concrete Poems - 1970
  • Twelve Songs - 1970
  • Instamatic Poems - 1972
  • Rites of Passage. Selected Translations - 1976
  • The New Divan - 1977
  • Poems of Thirty Years - 1982
  • Grafts/Takes - 1983
  • Sonnets from Scotland - 1984
  • Selected Poem - 1985
  • Newspoems - 1987
  • Tales from Limerick Zoo - 1988
  • Themes on a Variation - 1988
  • Collected Poems - 1990
  • Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature - 1990
  • Nothing Not Giving Messages Ed. Hamish Whyte - 1990
  • Hold Hands Among the Atoms: 70 Poems - 1991
  • Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac: A New Verse Translation - 1992
  • Cecilia Vicuña - 1994
  • Sweeping Out the Dark - 1994
  • Collected Translations - 1996
  • St. Columba: The Maker on High (translation) - 1997
  • Virtual and Other Realities - 1997
  • Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus In a New Version by Edwin Morgan - 1999
  • Demon - 1999
  • Jean Racine's Phaedra (translation)- 2000
  • New Selected Poems - 2000
  • A.D. A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus Christ (drama) - 2000
  • Attila József: Sixty Poems translated by Edwin Morgan - 2001
  • Cathures - 2002
  • Love and a Life: 50 Poems by Edwin Morgan - 2003
  • Tales From Baron Munchausen - 2004
  • Gilgamesh (translation) - 2005
  • A Book Of Lives - 2007
  • Beyond the Sun - 2007

Books about Edwin Morgan

  • Cover scan of The Poetry Of Edwin Morgan
    Add to Basket
    £5.50
    The Poetry Of Edwin Morgan - Paperback - Geddes Thomson
    The 'Scotnotes' series is a collection of study guides on major Scottish writers and literary texts. This volume looks at the poetry of Edwin Morgan.
Last modified Tuesday 11 March 2008
}