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Nine One Word Poems

Edwin Morgan

A Far Cool Beautiful Thing, Vanishing
blue

The Dear Green Plaice
Glasgow

Homage to Zukofsky
the

The Dilemmas of a Horn
roncesvalles

Ada Nada Paradada
dom

Lattice, Lettuce, Ladders
vasarely

Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet Asdic
dolphins

Dangerous Glory
morning

O Vapour-trails! O Water-melons!
voznesensky


Edwin Morgan

from Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2009  (Mariscat Press, 2010)

first published in the final issue of Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. no. 27 (c.1967), and reprinted in a hand-made booklet in 1982 by Mariscat Press (see image below, and the link to the Edwin Morgan Archive website where the item can be viewed page by page)

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Edwin Morgan.

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Glasgow short poems whimsy wordplay

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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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