Edwin Morgan (1920 - 2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 2004 to his death in 2010, he produced an astonishing range of work, from the playful to the profound. James McGonigal's new Second Edition of this SCOTNOTE covers the entirety of Morgan's work throughout his long and hugely productive life, and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils and students to Morgan's overflowing creativity.

 

This book is part of a book series called Scotnotes Study Guides .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 86 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Association for Scottish Literary Studies .

James McGonigal taught English for fourteen years in secondary schools before working in colleges and faculties of education, currently in the University of Glasgow. He combines teaching and creative writing with publications and research in special educational needs, Scottish and Irish literature, and literary modernism, and is editor of the SCROLL series (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature) published by Dutch-American publishers, Rodopi. He has published poetry and prose for adults and children (in both English and Scots language), and co-edited several anthologies of contemporary writing in the New Writing Scotland series in the 1990s. His poetry and translations have been quite widely published in literary magazines and some are collected in Driven Home (Mariscat, 1998) and in the tri-lingual long poem in English, Scots and Irish Gaelic, Passage/An Pasaiste, (Mariscat, 2004). As a writer, he has worked with school and community groups. His poetry has won literary prizes in Scotland and Ireland, and a bursary in 2002 from the Scottish Arts Council. McGonigal's biography of Edwin Morgan, Beyond the Last Dragon, was published by Sandstone in 2010, and won the 2011 Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Introduction An inter/national poet Key themes The Scots Makar 2. A Poet's Life Growing up Going to war Return to Glasgow 3. A Poet's Choice Variations on a theme Concrete poetry The Second Life (1968) 'Good Friday' and other Glasgow poems Love poems Science fiction poems 4. Gains, Losses Poems of the 1970s Instamatic Poems (1972) From Glasgow to Saturn (1973) 'Hyena' and other animal poems To Saturn From Glasgow The New Divan (1977) 'Winter' and other endings Star Gate (1979) 5. Towards a Different Scotland Poems of the 1980s Sonnets from Scotland (1984) 'Slate' and other sonnets From the Video Box (1986) Themes on a Variation (1988) 6. Translation: Variations on the Theme of Poetry Some functions of translation A theory of poetic translation 7. Dramatic Poetry and Poetic Drama Poems of the 1990s Poetry on stage Poems in a new century Two national poets? 8. Further Reading 9. Index of Titles