{"title":"Books by Edwin Morgan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780862414009","title":"Three Scottish Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eMACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains a selection of the  finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets:  Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and  charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America  with the energy, humour and compassion of their vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacCaig's  memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note  of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan's poems on  the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and  sensitive eye on personal relationships and women's experience of them.  The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry  and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295451132277,"sku":"9780862414009","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780862414009_c235d344-26b4-4839-9a62-5eca49b43687.jpg?v=1786016509"},{"product_id":"9781784109967","title":"Centenary Selected Poems","description":"This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his death at the age of ninety. All his different voices speak here - animals, inanimate objects, dramatic monologues by people, (famous people, unknown people and imaginary people) - in a multitude of forms and styles - sonnets, science fiction, concrete, sound, his own invented stanzas - together with his evocations of place, especially his home city of Glasgow, and a wide selection of his deservedly famous love poems. They all illustrate his incurable curiosity and a kind of relentless optimism for humanity.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303964127605,"sku":"9781784109967","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784109967_0059d6ad-8dc4-4f0b-a26c-0d35766ec17c.jpg?v=1786025938"},{"product_id":"9781857545883","title":"Beowulf","description":"Edwin Morgan's Beowulf has been a popular standard translation for half a century. His version is a vigorous, spoken English and conveys the heroism, violence and pathos of the first English epic. The poem marks a key moment in Edwin Morgan's development, as he recalls: 'This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same despite temptations to tinker here and there. The translation which was begun shortly after I came out of the army at the end of the Second World War, was in a sense my unwritten war poem, and I would not want to alter the expression I gave to its themes of conflict and danger, voyaging and displacement, loyalty and loss. Inter arma musae tacent (\"In the time of conflict the Muses are silent\"), but they are not sleeping.'               Edwin Morgan was a major translator. In 2011 he was awarded the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his version of Racine, Phaedra. His Carcanet titles include his Collected Translations (1996).","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308108493173,"sku":"9781857545883","price":8.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781857545883_4180a2b0-b489-4c19-87a0-d4f464dc1774.jpg?v=1786029730"},{"product_id":"9781857541885","title":"Collected Poems","description":"To catch \"in full sight\" is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of sequences, in the reification of words in concrete poems, in the rhythms of sound poems. He hears and transcribes voices. Even the sonnet form remains an experiment for the poet questing for vision and unwilling to rest on rules. This volume includes Edwin Morgan's \"Poems of Thirty Years\" (1982) and \"Themes on a Variation\" (1988), together with some 50 uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308696514933,"sku":"9781857541885","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781857541885_44378292-8a7b-4f6d-8b99-b3fe2fd929c5.jpg?v=1786029720"},{"product_id":"9781906841409","title":"Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language","description":"“I try to write something every day even though I am not writing poetry, just to get myself in touch with language.”—Edwin MorganEdwin Morgan (1920–2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. Scotland’s national poet from 2004 to his death, throughout his long life he produced an astonishing variety of work, from the playful to the profound.Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language presents previously uncollected prose – journalism, book and theatre reviews, scholarly essays and lectures, drama and radio scripts, forewords and afterwords – all carefully moulded to the needs of differing audiences. Morgan’s writing fizzes with clarity and verve: the topics range from Gilgamesh to Ginsberg, from cybernetics to sexualities, from international literatures to the changing face of his home city of Glasgow. Everyone will find surprises and delights in this new collection.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313115345269,"sku":"9781906841409","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781906841409_923af4a9-c8a0-4185-863e-0bf3499c9775.jpg?v=1786029217"},{"product_id":"a-home-in-space","title":"A Home in Space","description":"Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond traditional verse. This book brings together, for the first time, the full range of his visual and sound poetry – from vibrant poster poems and surrealist collages to concrete poetry, cut-ups and sonic permutations. It reveals Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art, linking language, image and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to questions of identity, ecology and empire, Morgan’s work remains as urgent and inventive as ever – a celebration of poetic form at its most expansive and alive.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507903996277,"sku":"9781836391968","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836391968.jpg?v=1787043049"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-edwin-morgan.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}