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Since the 1940s Edwin Morgan’s poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from…
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Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. He produced an astonishing range of work, from the playful to the profound. This book guides the reader along…
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Introduced by Jackie Kay, this selection of poems include the famous Strawberries and One Cigarette and four from Morgan’s autobiographical sequence, Love and a Life - love in all its…
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In this volume Michael Rosen introduces Edwin Morgan's animal poems. Morgan's empathy with animals is well represented, from the still very topical The White Rhinoceros to the prehistoric The Bearsden…
Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in Canedolia, study its history in Picts, home in on Morgan’s own city of Glasgow in Glasgow Sonnet v…
Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan's poem Pelagius , the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan…
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…
The beginning of the new decade brings with it a celebration of one of Scotland’s most cherished poets, Scotland’s first modern Makar, Edwin Morgan. A son of Glasgow, the city’s…
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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Edwin Morgan is Britain’s premier living poet. He has published many collections of poetry, criticism, essays and translations. His A Book of Lives was awarded the Sundial Scottish Arts Council…
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Monika Kocot
Monika Kocot’s book on Edwin Morgan’s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author’s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of…
James McGonigal’s new Second Edition of this SCOTNOTE covers the entirety of Morgan’s work throughout his long and hugely productive life, and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils…
Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. A sequence of…
This volume includes Edwin Morgan’s Poems of Thirty Years (1982) and Themes on a Variation (1988), together with some 50 uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.
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A selection of letters from the most popular modern Scottish poet.
Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time.
This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet…
Edwin Morgan’s new version of the Sumerian epic of ‘Gilgamesh’ brings this ancient epic into the 21st century, instilling it with wit, poignancy and an admirable command of contemporary Scottish…
A poetry collection from Scotland’s greatest living poet. It draws together the themes that inform his poetic world.
Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. In Touch With Language presents previously uncollected prose, with topics ranging from Gilgamesh to Ginsberg, cybernetics to sexualities, international…
David Edwin Morgan
Immortal Austin Seven tells the story of this most popular of pre-war cars in all its variations from the earliest Chummy of the 1920s through Sports, Military, Box and Ruby…
A new Selected to commemorate the centenary of Scotland’s first official Makar in modern times, Edwin Morgan.
Edwin D Morgan
Governor’s Message is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Step into the world of politics with this fascinating collection of Governor Edwin D. Morgan's messages. Filled with insight into the political and social issues of the time, this book…
Edwin Morgan,Norman MacCaig,Liz Lochhead
MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland’s best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead.
Ron Butlin,Ken MacLeod,Edwin Morgan
Blasting into the future, across alien worlds and distant galaxies, fantastic technologies and potential threats to humanity, Where Rockets Burn Through brings science fiction and poetry together in one explosive…
Unlike other works in the field, Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy deals with all levels of intergovernmental relations in the United States.
Originally published in 1950, this collaboration of two accomplished translators resulted in the first English verse translation of a major work of German literature. Rather than a translation of the…
Edwin S Grosvenor,Morgan Wesson
Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell’s other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in…
Edmund Spenser
Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the 11-volume Works collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser’s minor poems, prose works and Alexander C. Judson’s The Life of Edmund Spenser .
O'Brien Boardman Parker & Fox
Full Title: "Edwin Adams, Julius C. Morse, George C. Fisk, James F. Ray and Mary M. Clark, Complainants, against William Rockefeller, Charles M. Pratt, Lewis Cass Ledyard, and J. Pierpont…
