Download or read book The New Divan written by Edwin Morgan and published by Manchester : Carcanet New Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwin Morgan written by Colin Nicholson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of Modernity is the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body ofwriting that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Morgan develops radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon meter through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse, and prize-winning translations into both Englishand Scots from numerous languages.
Download or read book Sonnets from Scotland written by Edwin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Life written by Edwin Morgan and published by Edinburgh, U.P. This book was released on 1968 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of Lives written by Edwin Morgan and published by Poetry Book Society Recommenda. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Edwin Morgan and published by Manchester [England] : Carcanet. This book was released on 1990 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 'Poems of Thirty Years' (1982) and 'Themes on a Variation' (1988), together with some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
Download or read book Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan written by Rodney Edgecombe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow University where he later taught literature. He is much admired for his experimental writings, his ‘social’ poems, as well as for the diversity of his output. The present book comprises a chapter on Morgan’s early vision poems (which have received scant critical attention hitherto); two on his hodoiporika, The Cape of Good Hope and The New Divan; a chapter on his deployment of the grotesque mode, centred chiefly on the Instamatic Poems and The Whittrick; another on his adaptations of the elegy, in which Edgecombe propose a new genre called the “thanasimon;” and, finally, an examination of his various monologic poems, read in terms of his avowed enterprise of “voicing” the universe. The study is topped by a prologue that sets out the consistency of Morgan’s vision over time, and tailed by an epilogue that connects his various critical pronouncements to his remarkably diverse output.
Download or read book The International Companion to Edwin Morgan written by Alan Riach and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 2004 to his death in 2010, in his long life he produced an incredible range of work, from the playful to the profound. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION gives a comprehensive overview of Morgan's poetry and drama. A range of expert contributors guide the reader along Morgan's astonishing, multi-faceted trajectory through space and time, and provide students with an essential and accessible general introduction to his life and work.
Download or read book Cathures written by Edwin Morgan and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects, social, psychological, philosophical. Some of the poems have been set to music, both jazz and classical. In many ways it is a book of voices and observation, a book of accessible storytelling.
Download or read book As Others See Us written by Ross Gillespie and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth. The exhibition consists of 20 portraits of prominent and influential Scots, including Eddi Reader, Edwin Morgan, Peter Howson and Janice Galloway. The portraits capture a unique insight into the sitter, enhanced by the accompanying text, as each was asked to contribute their favourite poem from Robert Burns, and to explain why it is special to them and what they think it means to Scots today. REVIEW It is a celebration of Scottish culture, reflecting and conveying through words and pictures the work of this extraordinary man and his relevance today - not only to the people of Scotland but to a wider audience. - THE DRUM
Download or read book Virtual and Other Realities written by Edwin Morgan and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Voyage', which opens Edwin Morgan's new book, he takes a cinematic risk, evoking the journey of the human sperm from ejaculation to fertilization. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996, the poem opened new possibilities on the air as it does on the page. It belongs with Morgan's poems of space exploration, celebrating the chanciness and heroism of this most primal risk, and with his poetry of science. It also belongs with his love poems, performing a comprehensive synthesis of concerns. Three sequences complete this ambitious book. Beasts of Scotland' was commissioned by the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and set to music by the saxophonist Tommy Smith. Like The Five-Pointed Star', written for the Burns Bicentenary of 1996, Beasts' shows how commissioned, occasional poetry can at once honor and transcend its occasion. The title sequence of fifty triplet poems considers the consequences to reality of notions of virtual reality'. Once again Morgan displays his versatility and his rooted passion for language, for place and for real people living in a modern world that can merit celebration, laughter and (however hard-won) joy. No wonder his work, with its Scottish and European perspectives, is at once sophisticated and popular.
Download or read book Three Scottish Poets written by Norman MacCaig and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humor and compassion of their vision.
Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 1960 2015 written by Wolfgang Gortschacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.
Download or read book About Edwin Morgan written by Robert Crawford and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Glasgow to Saturn written by Edwin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glasgow Sonnets written by Edwin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Edwin Morgan and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily relocation of words in concrete poems, the weird rhythms of sound poems. His transforming imagination is democratic, generous and inclusive. Even the sonnet form becomes a new experiment for a poet of questing and anarchic vision, unwilling to rest on rules. 'More than the work of most poets,' writes lain Crichton Smith, Morgan's poetry 'welcomes the twentieth century, with its gadgets, its paradoxes, graffiti, new languages, torn advertisements, unconscious jokes, voyages...' This volume includes Poems of Thirty Years, Themes on a Variation, and some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
