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Edwin Morgan
1920 -
Edwin Morgan
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Primary – Poems and Translations

Starryveldt, Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Eugen Gomringer Press, 1965.

Emergent Poems, Stuttgart: Hansjörg Mayer, 1967.

Gnomes Preston: Akros Publications, 1968.

The Second Life, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968.

The Horseman's Word: A Sequence of Concrete Poems, Preston: Akros Publications, 1970.

Twelve Songs, West Linton: The Castlelaw Press, 1970.

Instamatic Poems, London: Ian McKelvie, 1972.

Rites of Passage. Selected Translations, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1976.

The New Divan, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1977.

Poems of Thirty Years, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1982.

Grafts/Takes, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1983.

Sonnets from Scotland, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1984.

Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985.

Newspoems. London: wacy!, 1987.

Tales from Limerick Zoo, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1988.

Themes on a Variation, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1988.

Collected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990.

Crossing the Border. Essays on Scottish Literature, Manchester: Carcanet, 1990.

Nothing Not Giving Messages, ed. by Hamish Whyte, Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990.

Hold Hands Among the Atoms. 70 Poems. Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1991.

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. A New Verse Translation Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1992.

Cecilia Vicuńa, PALABRARmas / WURDWAPPINschaw, Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications, 1994.

Sweeping Out the Dark, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.

Collected Translations, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1996.

St. Columba. The Maker on High, (Translation), Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1997.

Virtual and Other Realities, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1997.

"Planet Wave", in: PN Review 119, Vol. 24, No. 1(Jan. - Feb. 1998).

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. In a New Version by Edwin Morgan, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1999.

Demon, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1999.

Jean Racine. Phaedra, (Translation), Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000.

New Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000.

A.D. A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus Christ, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000.

Attila József. Sixty Poems translated by Edwin Morgan, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 2001.

Beowulf. A Verse Translation into Modern English, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2002 [first publ. 1952].

Cathures, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2002.

Love and a Life. 50 Poems by Edwin Morgan, Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 2003.

Articles and essays

Essays, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1974.

"Into the Constellation: Some Thoughts on the Origin and Nature of Concrete Poetry", in: Morgan, Edwin, Essays, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1974, S. 20-34.

Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. by Ian Scott-Kilvert, published for The British Arts Council, London: Longman, 1976.

"Scotland and the World", in: Chapman, 95 (2000), pp. 2 - 15

Secondary

Edwin Morgan : a selected bibliography, 1950-1980. ed Hamish Whyte
Glasgow : Mitchell Library, 1980.

Science & psychodrama : the poetry of Edwin Morgan and David Black / Robin Hamilton. Frome : Bran's Head, 1982.

The poetry of Edwin Morgan / Geddes Thomson. Aberdeen : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1986

About Edwin Morgan / edited by Robert Crawford and Hamish Whyte.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1990.

Felt-tipped hosannas : for Edwin Morgan on his 70th Birthday.
Glasgow : Third Eye Centre, 1990.

Unknown is best : a celebration of Edwin Morgan at eighty / edited by Robyn Marsack & Hamish Whyte.
Glasgow : Mariscat Press & Scottish Poetry Library, c2000.

Nicholson, Colin. Edwin Morgan : inventions of modernity / Colin Nicholson.
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002

 


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