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Home / Publications / Books / Scotnotes Study Guides / Scotnote 2

Scotnote 2

The Poetry of EDWIN MORGAN

SECOND EDITION
James McGonigal

Published in: Paperback.
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, August 2013
Price: £6.95
ISBN 978-1-906841-15-7

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Click here to watch James McGonigal’s talk on the poetry of Edwin Morgan plus other videos from the 2015 ASLS Schools Conference.


Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland’s national poet from 2004 to his death in 2010, he produced an astonishing range of work, from the playful to the profound.

James McGonigal’s Second Edition of this Scotnote (2013) covers the entirety of Morgan’s work throughout the poet’s long and hugely productive life, and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils and students to Morgan’s overflowing creativity.


CONTENTS
1. Introduction

  • An inter/national poet
  • Key themes
  • The Scots Makar

2. A Poet’s Life

  • Growing up
  • Going to war
  • Return to Glasgow

3. A Poet’s Choice

  • Variations on a theme
  • Concrete poetry
  • The Second Life (1968)
  • ‘Good Friday’ and other Glasgow poems
  • Love poems
  • Science fiction poems

4. Gains, Losses

  • Poems of the 1970s
  • Instamatic Poems (1972)
  • From Glasgow to Saturn (1973)
  • ‘Hyena’ and other animal poems
  • To Saturn
  • From Glasgow
  • The New Divan (1977)
  • ‘Winter’ and other endings
  • Star Gate (1979)

5. Towards a Different Scotland

  • Poems of the 1980s
  • Sonnets from Scotland (1984)
  • ‘Slate’ and other sonnets
  • From the Video Box (1986)
  • Themes on a Variation (1988)

6. Translation: Variations on the Theme of Poetry

  • Some functions of translation
  • A theory of poetic translation

7. Dramatic Poetry and Poetic Drama

  • Poems of the 1990s
  • Poetry on stage
  • Poems in a new century
  • Two national poets?

8. Further Reading
9. Index of Titles

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