Edwin Morgan Resources

Learn more about Edwin Morgan – through articles and links to associated organisations and projects.

Centenary

We have generated a suite of videos to celebrate the The Edwin Morgan Centenary, providing insight into the many facets of Edwin Morgan’s life and work. They can all be viewed on our website here: https://atomic-temporary-160957089.wpcomstaging.com/category/hold-hands-among-the-atoms/

Press coverage from the Edwin Morgan Centenary is one place to start looking at Edwin Morgan’s work and influence. Links to articles can be found here:
https://edwinmorgantrust.wordpress.com/edwinmorgan100-press/

Websites

The Poetry Archive for recordings of Edwin Morgan
Scottish Poetry Library for his biography, bibliography and selected poems
Scottish Poetry Library archive of the Edwin Morgan collection and teaching resources, the most significant and accessible collection of his work in print and other media
CILIPS for downloadable ‘An Introduction to Edwin Morgan’ A4/A3 poem-posters: https://www.cilips.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EM-100-Intro-A4-scaled.jpg [A4] and https://www.cilips.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EM-100-Intro-A3-2-scaled.jpg [A3]
University of Glasgow Special Collections for archive, information & links https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archivespecialcollections/discover/specialcollectionsa-z/edwinmorganpapers/
also, for the poem that launched the Glasgow Gay and Lesbian Centre (GGLC) https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/lgbt-history-month-poem-that-launched-gglc/
The Mitchell Library’s Edwin Morgan Collection https://libcat.csglasgow.org/web/arena/morgan
For a personal archive of photographs, commentary and links from Edwin Morgan’s friend Claudia Kraszkiewicz see https://www.edwinmorgan.com
Edwin Morgan reading poems at The Third Eye Centre (now CCA) in 1975 https://vimeo.com/94020588
Edwin Morgan reading poems for the BBC Radio 3 programme ‘The Sound of Edwin Morgan’ in March 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=763WfGUTxUg
Edwin Morgan reading fourteen ‘Sonnets from Scotland’ and other poems, recorded by Alexander Hutchison in 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLALODXRymk

Publishers

Edwin Morgan’s main UK publisher Carcanet Press
Morgan’s favourite Scottish publisher Mariscat Press
For centenary publications see https://edwinmorgantrust.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/centenary-publications/

Articles

EM A-Z http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue6/JimMcGonigal6.html James McGonigal for Blackbox Manifold (issue 26, Summer 2021).
British Council https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/edwin-morgan includes an appreciation by Sean O’Brien
BBC 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5X4jbvTmtJWG5Lj1TFsVMhh/edwin-morgan
LGBT Wiki project https://lgbt.wikia.org/wiki/Edwin_Morgan
James Campbell on Morgan as first Scots Makar https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview5
Donny O’Rourke reviewing the biography, reflecting on EM’s life and poetry https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2011/01/scotland-special-2-beyond-the-last-dragon/
Christopher Whyte, ‘Now You See It, Now You Don’t’: the love poetry of Edwin Morgan https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/glasgowreview/issue2-whyte/
Interview with Gerry Cambridge, 1997 http://www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Resources/EdwinMorganInterview.pdf
Interview with Judith Palmer, 1997 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-the-many-realities-of-edwin-morgan-1296087.html
Interview with Peter Ross, 2004 https://tinyurl.com/5xu558k2
Interview by Sarah Crown, 2008 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/26/poetry
Interview on his 90th birthday https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/interview-edwin-morgan-scotland-s-greatest-living-poet-1-801474
David Kinloch, ‘Edwin Morgan and Risk’ https://www.davidkinloch.co.uk/journal/edwin-morgan-risk

Obituaries

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