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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.
Awards won by Edwin Morgan:, 2000 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Praise for Edwin Morgan:'Edwin Morgan is the most dynamic, brilliant, free-wheeling poet around, endlessly accessible and inventive, glorious refreshment.' The Scotsman
'Morgan's poetry has always been large, vigorous and imaginative. It has been energetic and various.' lain Crichton Smith
'There seems no subject Morgan cannot alight upon with his effervescent art.' The Scotsman
'Morgan is just as capable of taking the breath away in cool, stanzaic English, as in roustabout Scots free verse.' VERSE
'For the range of his inventiveness, the generosity of his imagination, the moral alertness of his social observation. Edwin Morgan is the man for me.' Carol Ann Duffy
'Edwin Morgan's poetry encompasses the whole world. ... he should be at least as famous as Hughes and Heaney.' Liz Lochhead
'Edwin Morgan is probably the writer most influential (in this) generation of Scottish poets.' Robert Crawford
'(Morgan) is still at the height of his powers as storyteller, polemicist, lyric poet and translator.' Alan Brownjohn
'Mr Morgan writes in a way which I would characterise as generous and forceful as well as immediately sensible.' The Scotsman
'Mr Morgan is as versatile as he is inventive ... the qualities that most appeal are a capacity for celebration ... and an unsentimental humaneness, a considering sympathy.' TLS
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