The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Take Heart
Edwin Morgan author Ali Smith editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Birlinn General
Published:2nd Apr '20
£5.00
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Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan’s poem ‘Pelagius’, the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan has the ability to enter into so many lives: the blind hunchback of ‘In the Snack-bar’, Jesus’s judge in ‘Pilate at Fortingall’, the Polish juggler and acrobat ‘Cinquevalli’ (another alter ego), even Rameses II in ‘The Mummy’. ‘Morgan, I said to myself, take note, / Take heart. In a time of confusion / You must make a stand.’
No 20th-century poetry has brought me more varied, intense and unfading pleasure than Morgan’s. His is the song of our time – the living, not the dying, song which “gives us our being”
* GuardiISBN: 9781846975455
Dimensions: 180mm x 110mm x 5mm
Weight: 86g
64 pages