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Collected Poems New edition
Author(s): Edwin Morgan (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 1996
- Edition: New edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 608 pages
- ISBN-10: 185754188X
- ISBN-13: 9781857541885
Book Description
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.
‘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.
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About the Author
Edwin Morgan was Scotland’s first national poet – Scotland’s version of the Poet Laureate – and one of the best-loved and most significant poets of the twentieth century.
