While The Second Life Awards funding scheme aims to finance and assist projects that enrich Scottish cultural life and connect with Edwin Morgan’s life and work, the Edwin Morgan Trust acknowledges the need to support the development of ongoing programmes. In response, we piloted a three-year ‘Partnerships’ programme, beginning in Autumn 2022 and ending in Summer 2025, which supports existing organisations to build their programmes in line with the Edwin Morgan Trust’s missions, aims and objectives.
Clydebuilt
St Mungo’s Mirrorball
The Clydebuilt mentorship programme speaks directly to Edwin Morgan’s legacy, providing mentoring and support for emerging poets of all ages. The selected poets work with a mentor for a twelve-month period to develop not only their own writing style but their ability to critique others. Over the year the participants produce a portfolio of poems and, along with their tutor, read some of their resulting work at a dedicated St Mungo’s Mirrorball event.
Edwin Morgan Poets in Residence
StAnza
The Poets-in-residence scheme offers support to two poets, enabling them to spend time considering the ways in which StAnza’s annual theme (2023: Wild; 2024: Weave and Weft) intersect with their own practice. As part of this residency, poets are invited to the Edwin Morgan Archives at the University of Glasgow and Scottish Poetry Library, and offered support from archivists, academics and EMT. This funded research time provides the opportunity for poets to have a facilitated research period, as well as an avenue for presentation and peer support through StAnza Festival programmes and events.
The Edwin Morgan Scholarships 2023
Scottish Universities’ International Summer School
In line with Edwin Morgan’s keen interest in Scotland, translation and travel, the Edwin Morgan Scholarships enable early-career academics to participate in a wide-ranging academic and cultural programme at SUISS. The scholarships are awarded to academics from the UK and abroad who do not have a Scottish Literature course at their home universities but who can demonstrate a committed interest in the subject. The EMT follows these students as they network with UK-based academics and students, immerse themselves in Scottish culture, and partake in a journey of knowledge exchange.
Translation events
Push the Boat Out Festival
Named after Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘At Eighty’, Push the Boat Out festival pays homage to Morgan’s inestimable contribution to poetry and his restless pioneering spirit through its exciting, provocative and collaborative approach to programming. In line with Morgan’s own commitment to ‘translation in all senses’, the Edwin Morgan Trust has supported translation-based events at PTBO during this partnership.
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