The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Space and Spaces

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A mixture of Morgan's science fiction poems and concrete poems. There's the famous encounter between humans and aliens in The First Men on Mercury, early digital tongue-twisting in The Computer's First Christmas Card and the effects of teleportation in In Sobieski's Shield - on earth or in outer space Morgan explores what it is to be human.

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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.

Ken MacLeodwas born in Stornoway, and graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology. He is an internationally acclaimed science fiction writer whose works includeThe Fall Revolutionseries,The Engines of Light TriologyandThe Corporation Wars.