Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
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There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon ...
Thanks to Lesley Duncan for featuring Edwin Morgan’s juicy summer classic in The Herald’s Weekend Magazine on Saturday 🍓❤️
...How often will I think you, until
our dying steps forget this light, forget
that we ever knew the happy glen,
or that I ever said, We must jump into the sun,
and we jumped into the sun.
☀️💚
‘From a City Balcony’ by #EdwinMorgan, written in May 1964 & published in The Second Life (EUP, 1968)
Please take a look at Greg’s crowdfunding campaign to support the publication of ‘Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay’, which will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, a collaborator, a friend, and sometimes an adversary ⬇️
It’s Pride Month in the UK. Not sure we’ve ever needed it more. Here’s a documentary I made for Radio 4 on the history, history-makers and future of Pride.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The Edwin Morgan Trust
Happy Pride my loves! If you want to read Strawberries in Gaelic, a reminder you can see my Edwin Morgan translations over on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website: edwinmorgantrust.com/2021/03/22/r... #gàidhlig #pròis
Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea…
—Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”: a poem written for his own 80th birthday
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵
#poem #poetry
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www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/
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And a couple of musical tributes:
Still my favourite found poem.
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Dr Robbie MacLeòid
Damian Barr
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Tommy Mackay
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text.
If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate!
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Damian Barr examines how Pride has helped bring about change for the LGBTQ+ community.
An Dà Shaoghal – A zine of Gàidhlig translations of seven Edwin Morgan poems of love, desire, and sex by Robbie MacLeòid. Robbie has shared the acanned zine, a selection of audio recorded rea…
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Edwin Morgan reading 'Trio' backed by 'Boom Boom' by Trio. Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm Chihuahua! see also:
There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window…
—Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”🍓
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #PrideMonth #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
Association for Scottish Literature
✨ Happy birthday Eddie! ✨
On what would’ve been #EdwinMorgan ’s 106th birthday, we’re sharing some of the wonderful poems written in tribute to Eddie over the years ... 1/6
