Edwin Morgan Trust
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Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan. Biennial £20,000 prize for poets under 30 #EMPA2024. Grant scheme #TheSecondLifeAwards.
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Wonderful to be joined at last night’s rehearsal by composer, Harry Baines, whose new work, ‘When You Go’ (with lyrics from the Edwin Morgan Trust poem of the same name) will be premiered at our summer concert in June. It is STUNNING. ❤️🎶
Tickets to be released soon!
here's the gorgeous Giuseppe Penone-inspired cover of my UK pamphlet 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑆𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 coming in May from the amazing Out-Spoken Press - can't wait to share what i've been working on 🌲🪵
For #ShakespeareDay , Edwin Morgan’s ‘Caliban Falls Asleep in the Isle Full of Noises’, published in Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1990)
Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor”, in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE
#ShakespeareDay
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“This poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, & to the heart of form, the heart of voice & silence & to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop”
—Ali Smith
Edwin Morgan, “Instructions to an Actor”
#ShakespeareDay
Spent the day with Edwin Morgan's scrapbooks at Glasgow Uni. They really are extraordinary. A hidden gem of British surrealism IMO. Julie Johnstone and I will be sharing a selection in the forthcoming edition of Morgan's visual, concrete & sound poetry. Edwin Morgan Trust ❣
Proofs came in this week for a postmedieval dialogue piece between myself & E. K. Myerson on re-creation & translation in the archives of Derek Jarman & Edwin Morgan!
It will be in v. good company in an essay cluster ed. by Dr Rebecca Menmuir & Hannah Armstrong - I can't wait.
Creative Conversations is back next Monday 22nd April 1pm with guest author Nadine Aisha Jassat
Nadine has been shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award & is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee. Join for free in person alan liu chapel book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-con…
For #WorldArtDay , Edwin Morgan’s poem inspired by Flood Tide by Joan Eardley – a celebration of the creative spirit of the artist. Collected in Beyond the Sun: Scotland’s Favourite Paintings (Luath Press, 2007).
Image of Flood Tide © Joan Eardley Estate
Hey all - my Poetry School class on rhyme and prosody has turned out to be more popular than I anticipated. As of this morning there are only three places left. If you're thinking of joining, sign up now to avoid crushing disappointment!
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Join the launch of Bi+ Lines, the world's first anthology of bi+ poets, edited by Helen Bowell at Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop tomorrow: lighthousebookshop.com/events/bi-line….
