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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.
Widely regarded as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century, he served as Scotland's Makar, the national poet laureate, from 2004 until his death. Known for his versatility and formal experimentation, Morgan's poetry embraces a wide range of styles and subject matter.
A quick poet in many ways, Morgan is alive to the possibilities of life, and keen to celebrate them. The eponymous ‘Strawberries’, for example, begin a poem that goes on to rejoice in a love expressed in strawberry-flavoured kisses and the plate-cleansing thunderstorm; ‘The Apple’s Song’ is the call of a fruit that rejoices in the ...
This selection of unpublished poems by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), and by some younger Scottish poets whose work he has advanced, comes from two different points of transition: from the start of the seventies and of the 2020s.
Edwin Morgan marked his 90th birthday in April 2010 with the publication of a new collection of poetry, Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2009 (2010). Morgan died a few months later, on 19 August 2010.
