[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Edwin Morgan

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_http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2246869,00.html_ 
(http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2246869,00.html) 
Zest and grit
 
Edwin Morgan, Glasgow's poet laureate, has helped shape Scotland's postwar  
identity and a generation of writers. But he will be best remembered for his  
guarded love poetry, says Sarah Crown 
 
Saturday January 26, 2008
The Guardian 
 
In March, as part of Glasgow's annual Aye Write! festival, 15,000 free  
copies of From Glasgow to Saturn: Fifty Favourite Poems by Edwin Morgan (as  voted 
for by his readers) will be distributed across the city via libraries,  
schools and bookshops. Morgan's is the first poetry collection to be selected as  a 
"city read" anywhere in the UK - a demonstration of Glasgow's devotion to its  
inaugural poet laureate, a post created for him in 1997, who has chronicled 
and  mythologised the city for over half a century. It is the climax to a year 
that  would count as remarkable in the career of any poet, never mind one 
who'll be 88  in April. The rapturous reception last spring of his latest 
collection, A Book  of Lives, was followed in October by the news that, in the wake of 
his 2004  appointment as Scots Makar (national poet), the Heritage Lottery 
Fund had  awarded the Scottish Poetry Library a grant of £50,000 to acquire and 
house his  extensive archive. 



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