The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Scotland

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Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in Canedolia, study its history in Picts, home in on Morgans own city of Glasgow in Glasgow Sonnet v, imagine the countrys future in The Coin.

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No 20th-century poetry has brought me more varied, intense and unfading pleasure than Morgans. His is the song of our time the living, not the dying, song which gives us our being

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Edwin Morgan (19202010) became Scotlands first National Poet, or Makar, in 2004. His poetic output was hardly dimmed by increasing age; Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990) and Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996) were succeeded by several later volumes of poetry, including Dreams and Other Nightmares (Mariscat Press, 2010). He was awarded the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000.

Liz Lochhead was born in Motherwell in 1947. Her poetry collections include: Dreaming Frankenstein(Polygon, 1984),True Confessions and New Clichs (Polygon, 1985),Bagpipe Muzak(Penguin, 1991),The Colour of Black & White(Polygon, 2003) andA Choosing(Polygon, 2011). In 2005 Liz became Poet Laureate of Glasgow, and in 2011 she was appointed Scotlands Makar, succeeding Edwin Morgan. Liz Lochhead was awarded the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry (2015).