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Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century.
Edwin Morgan. Scotland’s first official Makar in modern times, Edwin Morgan was endlessly inventive, inquiring, energetic, internationalist, and deeply committed to his home city of Glasgow. A book of poems in his honour, Unknown Is Best, was produced to celebrate Morgan’s eightieth birthday in 2000.
One of Scotland’s most beloved poets, and Glasgow’s first poet laureate, Edwin Morgan, was born in Glasgow and lived there for most of his life.
The immense body of work published by Edwin Morgan since 1952 might suggest an imperious project of cultural domination, but no one having the slightest acquaintance with Morgan’s poetry would think so: his writing offers an extremely rare combination of epic scope with lightness of touch.
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Edwin Morgan Biography He was the author of many books, including poetry, criticism, essays, translations, plays and works of concrete poetry, for which he received awards including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the Weidenfeld Prize for Translation; in addition to having been both Glasgow’s Poet Laureate and Scotland’s Makar, he ...
This introduction is part of a portfolio of work by Edwin Morgan and by the three winners of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award: Penny Boxall, Niall Campbell, and Roseanne Watt. James McGonigal is a poet and editor, as well as Edwin Morgan’s biographer and literary executor.
Biography: Edwin George Morgan was born 27 April 1920 in Glasgow's West End. Soon after his birth his parents decided to move to Rutherglen, where he spent his childhood and attended a local school. After completing Rutherglen school, he went to Glasgow High School, and began his studies at Glasgow University in 1937.
