Centenary Selected Poems

Edwin Morgan, Hamish Whyte

• Publisher: Carcanet Classics
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781784109967
• eBook ISBN: 9781800170445
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his death at the age of ninety. All his different voices speak here - animals, inanimate objects, dramatic monologues by people, (famous people, unknown people and imaginary people) - in a multitude of forms and styles - sonnets, science fiction, concrete, sound, his own invented stanzas - together with his evocations of place, especially his home city of Glasgow, and a wide selection of his deservedly famous love poems. They all illustrate his incurable curiosity and a kind of relentless optimism for humanity.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Editor’s Note
• from The Vision of Cathkin Braes (1952)
• Concrete Poems (1963–1969)
• from The Second Life (1968)
• from Instamatic Poems (1971–1973)
• from From Glasgow to Saturn (1973)
• from The New Divan (1977)
• from Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems (1979)
• from Poems of Thirty Years (1982)
• from Grafts (1983)
• from Selected Poems (1985)
• from Themes on a Variation (1988)
• from Collected Poems (1990)
• from Hold Hands Among the Atoms (1991)
• from Virtual and Other Realities (1997)
• from Cathures (2002)
• from A Book of Lives (2007)
• from Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954–2009 (2010)
• Index of Poem Titles
• About the Authors
• Carcanet Classics Include
• Copyright