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22nd August 2019 edwinmorgan

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Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan. Supporting a biennial Poetry Award & workshops. Celebrating Morgan’s centenary in 2020.

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‪‘I’ve combed your hair‬ ‪and washed you ‪‘I’ve combed your hair‬
‪and washed your feet‬
‪and made you turn‬
‪like a dark eel‬
‪in my white bed’ ‬
‪#edwinmorgan ‘In Glasgow’ from @carcanetpress’s #edwinmorgan100 release edited by #HamishWhyte - available on July 30! https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967 ‬
Beyond excited to get #TheEdwinMorganCollection in Beyond excited to get #TheEdwinMorganCollection in the post today from @spec_books 🥳. Edited by @colinjherd, it is filled to the brim with exciting new work responding to #edwinmorgan’s scrapbooks - held at @uofglasgowasc. Grab yourself a copy online on the @spec_books website! Huge thanks to all the writers for responding so generously and to the Speculative Books team and @colinjherd for producing such a special collection for #edwinmorgan100.
OPEN CALL 📯 In partnership with @creativescots OPEN CALL 📯
In partnership with @creativescots for #edwinmorgan100 we are offering 8 x £750 grants to develop new work. We have streamlined the application process with 3 questions and no CV required. All the information is on our website https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/05/18/the-second-life-open-call/. We can’t wait to hear your ideas!
This stunning May afternoon is reminding us of #Ed This stunning May afternoon is reminding us of #EdwinMorgan's evocation of a city waking up and stretching in the sunshine, and his own new energies, and new #love in his 40s. from 'The Second Life'- reprinted in Take Heart (@birlinnbooks / @carcanetpress 2020). #edwinmorgan100 #lovepoem
Our second video release is “Edwin Morgan’s Co Our second video release is “Edwin Morgan’s Computer” - an interactive game poem created by @terratrouve for @nationalpoetrylibrary’s postponed exhibition “The Concrete World of Edwin Morgan”. Each poem remixes one of Edwin Morgan’s #concrete poems into a digital moving video game that can be explored and activated by the user. Find and play on our website:  https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/05/26/edwin-morgans-computer-by-nick-murray/  #concretepoetry #videogames #edwinmorgan100
It’s May 27th and #edwinmorgan100 is one month o It’s May 27th and #edwinmorgan100 is one month old! 🥳

To celebrate, we have two incredible new videos available to explore on our channel #holdhandsamongtheatoms. The first video is titled “Sincerely yours as ever”, with candid thoughts and shared memories from Michael Schmidt (@carcanetpress ), James McGonigal (biographer), Robyn Marsack (editor) and Jim Coyle (editor), this video gives personal insight into Edwin Morgan’s life and the significance and limitations of letters as #archive. Edited by @aideendoran with design from @maeve_redmond_. Link in bio!
‪Tomorrow we will release our 2nd video for the ‪Tomorrow we will release our 2nd video for the #holdhandsamongtheatoms channel. Titled #sincerelyyoursasever, it is a discussion between #MichaelSchmidt @carcanetpress , #JamesMcGonigal, #RobynMarsack and #JohnCoyle @uofglasgow about EM’s letters and life. @uofglasgowasc #edwinmorgan100 ‬
‘A Fuchsia’ by #EdwinMorgan in #HoldHandsAmong ‘A Fuchsia’ by #EdwinMorgan in #HoldHandsAmongTheAtoms @mariscatpress. Feeling very grateful for our flowering, blossoming and budding companions during #lockdown. Morgan perfectly articulates the inter species love that can be possible when we care for all living things. 🧡#edwinmorgan100
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