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Edwin Morgan

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Gender Male
Death13 years ago
Date of birth April 27,1920
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Glasgow
United Kingdom
Date of died August 17,2010
DiedGlasgow
United Kingdom
August 2010
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Job Teacher
Poet
Education University of Glasgow
The High School of Glasgow
Movies/Shows For Love of the Game
Wag the Dog
Ice Cream Man
Bitter Harvest
The Hollywood Knights
You Light Up My Life
The People's Choice
Awards T. S. Eliot Prize
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Cholmondeley Award
King's Gold Medal for Poetry
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Listen artist www.youtube.com
Influences Vladimir Mayakovsky
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
John Milton
Paul Verlaine
Hart Crane
Laura Riding
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A Book of Lives
Cathures
New selected poems
Collected Translations
Collected poems
Love and a life
The second life
Virtual and other realities
Sonnets from Scotland
From Glasgow to Saturn
Glasgow sonnets
The Play of Gilgamesh
Instamatic poems
Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2009
Selected poems
Poems of thirty years
Sweeping out the dark
The new divan
Nothing not giving messages
Themes on a variation
From Saturn to Glasgow: 50 Favourite Poems
The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence (1950-2010)
Hold hands among the atoms
Crossing the Border
Beyond the Sun: Scotland's Favourite Paintings
The whittrick
Tales from Baron Munchausen
Star Gate
Edwin Morgan: Collected Poems
Tales from Limerick Zoo
The Horseman's Word: A Sequence of Concrete Poems
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie
Twelve songs
Demon
Essays
Long poems-- but how long
17 Poems of Edwin Morgan: A Commentary
East European poets
Scottish Satirical Verse: An Anthology
Grafts
Collins albatross book of longer poems
The Apple Tree
Hold Hands Among the Atoms and Demon Translated Into Greek
Language, Poetry and Language Poetry
Roadworks: Song Lyrics for Wildcat
Edwin Morgan: Reading from His Poems
Provenance and problematics of 'sublime and alarming images' in poetry
The Fruits of Murder
Rites of Passage: Translations
Glasgow poets past and present
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in a new version
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Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE 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. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Makar or National Poet for Scotland.

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