New Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan
This collection contains most of the work from Selected Poems from 1985, together with later material, such as the complete sequence of Sonnets from Scotland, and Planet Wave, a suite of ten poems covering the history of the earth from the Big Bang to the time of Copernicus.Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in the year 1920. In 1940, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, interrupting his studies at Glasgow University, but he later returned and received a First Class Honours degree. He declined an Oxford scholarship and instead lectured at Glasgow University until 1980. He's written a number of poetry collections and translated works from a variety of languages. In 2000, he received the Queen's Gold Award for Poetry, and in 2001, he received the famous Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. In 1999, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Glasgow, and in 2004, he was named Scotland's National Poet.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857544596 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857544595 |
| Title | New Selected Poems |
| Author | Edwin Morgan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
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