The Edwin Morgan Trust
Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
- 🚀 A Home in Space: exploring Edwin Morgan’s concrete poetry Sun 15 March | 11am–12pm | online | £5 An interactive workshop at this year’s StAnza festival led by Greg Thomas & Julie Johnstone, who will guide participants through Morgan’s speculative work. edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/02/04/a...
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- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan Trust🌈 Queer History Month 🌈 Join our month-long digital screening of Of Us & Others by Maya Rose Edwards—intimate, anonymous queer conversations across Glasgow, exploring kinship, care & imagined futures. 🎥 1–28 February- link in bio to watch on our YouTube
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- The 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award is officially open for submissions 🎉🎉 If you’re a poet under 30 born, raised or currently living in Scotland and you have not yet published a full-length collection, we want to read your work! Deadline: Monday 30 March edwinmorgantrust.com/2021/11/15/a...
- This Friday the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award opens for submissions! We’re thrilled to announce the fabulous panel judging this year’s award: ✨ Christine De Luca ✨ Roshni Gallagher ✨ Ryan Van Winkle ✨ Beth Frieden ✨ Janette Ayachi ✨ Stewart Sanderson edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/01/26/e...
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustCongratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustToday, 13 January, is the Feast Day of St Mungo (AKA St Kentigern), patron saint of Glasgow. Edwin Morgan’s “Colloquy in Glaschu” imagines a conversation between St Mungo & St Columba. From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry 1/6 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
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- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustThis is THE Christmas poem for me, in its pure joy and wish for better things in the new year. 'Trio' sums up Edwin Morgan's wild optimism, which many of us need now... Monsters of the year go blank, are scattered back, can't bear this march of three... www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/trio/
- Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua! #EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
- Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua! #EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan Trustjollymerry hollyberry jollyberry merryholly happyjolly jollyjelly jellybelly bellymerry hollyheppy jollyMolly marryJerry merryHarry hoppyBarry… —Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s First Christmas Card” first published in THE SECOND LIFE, @edinburghup.bsky.social 1968 #poem #poetry #concretepoetry
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustA poem by Edwin Morgan inscribed into a flagstone on Candleriggs in Glasgow, just outside the City Halls. Born in 1920, Morgan became the city's first poet laureate in 1999. Cont./ #glasgow #streetart #poetry #edwinmorgan #glasgowcoatofarms #streetpoetry
- ... so that our first kiss was like the winter morning moon, and as you shifted in my arms it was the sea changing the shingle that changes it as if for ever ... — from ‘The Unspoken’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in The Second Life (EUP, 1968) 🌒
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustComputer’s First Christmas Card: a Poetry/Coding workshop Thur 4 Dec Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Free An introduction to coding and poetry with Michael Mullen and Claire Quigley. There will also be a chance to see some items from the Edwin Morgan collection. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computers-...
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- What was your wish? You wanted more? It’s granted! Up there is a store Of light. It’s breaking now in showers Not of stars but meteors . . . ✨ “Leonids” by #EdwinMorgan, published in Cathures (Carcanet, 2002)
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustCall for papers for a special issue of the *Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry* on concrete & visual poetries. Edited by Colin Herd & Greg Thomas. 250-300-word abstracts to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026 poetry.openlibhums.org/news/867/ Please repost and share!
- A spOoky poem from Edwin Morgan’s final collection, Dreams and Other Nightmares. Happy Hallowe’en! — “Horsemen” published here in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet 2020)
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustRubbing a glistening circle on the steamed-up window I framed a pheasant in a field of mist… —Edwin Morgan, “Aberdeen Train” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
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- Next Friday: In Translation: A Scottish-Slovenian Poetry Exchange – poets working across Gaelic, Scots & Slovene will share translations of each other’s work & insights into their creative process. Register to attend in person: shorturl.at/6nNtz Or email arts-cclt@glasgow.ac.uk to join online!
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- Happy 100th birthday Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, visual artist, gardener, and friend of Edwin Morgan. EM & IHF met in the summer of 1961 & supported each other throughout the decade, both been keen experimenters in the field of concrete poetry ... 🧵 [img: “Fish Sheet One”, pub. by IHF in 1963)
- We’re excited to launch the Open the Doors Fund, our new small grants scheme for poets + translators in Scotland seeking funding to support their creative/professional development. Deadline: 10 Nov, 5pm For more info please visit our website 👇 edwinmorgantrust.com/2025/10/13/t...
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- For #InternationalTranslationDay, Edwin Morgan’s translation of ‘Anyám’ by Hungarian poet Attila József (1905–1937) Published in Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)
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- “As clay in clay you cannot catch my thanks, my steadiness, my lateness, my praise” — ’John I’ by Edwin Morgan, written in memory of John Scott, his partner for 16 years, who died in September 1978. Published in Edwin Morgan Twenties: Love (Polygon, 2020)
- Announcing our new partnership scheme: The Canedolia Collaboration! We welcome applications from orgs in Scotland looking to deliver a 3-year programme focused on poetry and/or translation. Financial and in-kind support available. ⏰ Deadline: 2 Oct @ 5pm edwinmorgantrust.com/2025/09/04/t...
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- The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious. Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates ... — ‘A Crow’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in Sweeping Out the Dark (Carcanet, 1994)
- “Oh I can’t speak of that eternal break of white, only of memories crowding in from human kind ...” Remembering dear Edwin Morgan, who died on this day, fifteen years ago. —portrait of Edwin Morgan (1980) by Alexander Moffat —‘100’ from The New Divan, publ. in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990)
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- Tonight! Join us at Edinburgh Book Festival for a very special event, where Colin Bramwell, Ellen McAteer, and Gregory Woods will be joined by Ishbel McFarlane to discuss poetry, queerness, translation, and freedom 💚 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustApplications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️ Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi Only eight places available! #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
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- Join us at Edinburgh Book Fest for a very special event, ‘Edwin Morgan: A Legacy from Translation to Liberation’, at which Colin Bramwell, Ellen McAteer, & Gregory Woods will talk about poetry, queerness, translation, & freedom 💚 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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- Keep at them, ladies. This is a feast. This is a midsummer night’s dream... — ‘Midge’ by #EdwinMorgan, published here in Edwin Morgan Twenties: Menagerie (Polygon, 2020) ☀️🪰
- We are currently seeking new Trustees, as well as members to join the EMT Advisory Group. If you’re passionate about supporting the development of Scottish poetry and translation and want to help shape the future of the EMT, we would love to hear from you! ⬇️ edwinmorgantrust.com/news/
- ⏰ Applications for CLYDEBUILT 18 close tomorrow at 5 pm! Clydebuilt offers emerging poets in Scotland the opportunity to work with an experienced mentor over the course of a year + develop a portfolio of new work. Visit our website to find out how to apply👇 edwinmorgantrust.com/2025/04/24/c...
- ... It is midsummer and till my voice broke, 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 I loved to sing ... ☀️ Edwin Morgan on the melancholy of #midsummer, and remembering those you love. — ‘Fires’, published in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2020)
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- Spacebreaker! Wildship! Starman! ... take poets on your voyages! 🚀 Edwin Morgan’s poem written for the International Poetry Incarnation, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall 60 years ago today. (1/3)
- Reposted by The Edwin Morgan TrustThe unveiling of new poetry inscribed stones at the Canongate Wall - @scotparl.bsky.social Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP with former Scotland national Makars Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Liz Lochhead.
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