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Edwin Morgan

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Edwin Morgan

from Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990)

Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press.

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Edwin Morgan1920 - 2010

Morgan was Glasgow's first Poet Laureate 1999-2002, and the first to hold the post of Scots Makar, created by the Scottish Executive in 2004 to recognise the achievement of Scottish poets throughout the centuries.
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