Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely...
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Edwin Morgan may refer to: Edwin Morgan (poet) (1920–2010), Scottish poet Edwin B. Morgan (1806–1881), U.S. Representative from New York Edwin D. Morgan...
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The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award Award is a Scottish poetry prize awarded biennially for the best unpublished poetry collection by a Scottish poet under...
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Continuum - Shona Mackay The Unspoken - Jay Capperauld (lyrics by Edwin Morgan (poet)) The Burning Ladder - Sarah Rimkus (lyrics by Dana Gioia), co-commission...
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Kelman – novelist Tom Leonard – poet Liz Lochhead – poet and playwright Peter May – crime writer Edwin Morgan – poet and translator Grant Morrison – comic...
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McIllvanney, writer Caroline Moir, writer Edwin Morgan, poet Seamus Perry, academic and writer Robert William Service, poet and writer Jane Shaw, writer J David...
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songs which mention Rutherglen such as "Ru'glen Jean" and "Rosy Anna" Edwin Morgan, poet Frank Quitely, (born Vincent Deighan), comic artist Richard Rankin...
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(1909–1981) and Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975). The Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) became known for translations of works from a wide range...
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poet. He has published two poetry collections and a poetry pamphlet. He was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2011, winner of the Edwin Morgan...
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Penny Boxall (category Scottish women poets)
Penny Boxall (born 1987) is a Scottish poet. Her first poetry collection, Ship of the Line, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016. Boxall was born...
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1922) Bill Millin, bagpiper at the D-Day Normandy landings (b. 1922) Edwin Morgan, poet (b. 1920) 20 August – Carys Bannister, neurosurgeon (b. 1935) 21 August...
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including an adaptation of the poem "The First Men on Mercury" by Edwin Morgan (poet) in comic form. On National Poetry Day 2009, 35,000 copies of the...
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follows; Issue 6: "Fact", Frank Kuppner, novelist Issue 7: "Complexity", Edwin Morgan, poet Issue 8: "Panegyric", Jenni Calder, writer Issue 10: "Word" Issue...
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In 2004 the Scottish Parliament appointed Professor Edwin Morgan as the first Makar or National Poet for Scotland. On his death in January 2011 he was succeeded...
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the University of Edinburgh. His opera Columba, with libretto by Edwin Morgan (poet), was partly inspired by his love of Iona and the western isles. A...
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(1909–1981) and Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975). The Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) became known for translations of works from a wide range...
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is now 3 years, rather than the 5 years which it had previously been. Edwin Morgan (2004-2010) Liz Lochhead (2011-2016) Jackie Kay (2016-2021) Kathleen...
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fiction shaped by his distinctive island background. The Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) became known for translations of works from a wide range...
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chairman of the Hartford Parks Commission. He was not related to Edwin D. Morgan, a prominent Hartford and New York banker and merchant of the same...
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Roseanne Watt (category Shetland poets)
first poetry collection Moder Dy won multiple awards, including the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2018 and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2020. Roseanne...
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Alycia Pirmohamed (category 21st-century Canadian poets)
poetry, including the CBC Literary Prize for poetry in 2019 and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2020. Alycia Pirmohamed was born and raised in Alberta...
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Jen Hadfield (category 21st-century British poets)
Hadfield was winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Award in 2012. and selected in 2014 as one of "Next Generation Poets", a promotion organised...
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Liz Lochhead (category Scottish women poets)
early 1970s and meetings with the elder generation - Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Robert Garioch – and with contemporaries such as Leonard, Kelman and...
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Bill Millin, British Army soldier and piper during WWII (born 1922) Edwin Morgan, poet (born 1920) 3 September – Annie Turnbull, supercentenarian, oldest...
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Miriam Nash (category 21st-century Scottish poets)
She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan poetry award in 2016, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018. Miriam...
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4 March – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (died 2002) 27 April – Edwin Morgan, poet (died 2010) 22 September – Lyall Stuart Scott, consultant surgeon...
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Makar (redirect from Poet Laureate of Scotland)
the Parliament in that year when Edwin Morgan received the honour to become Scotland's first ever official national poet. He was succeeded in 2011 by Liz...
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Michael Hamburger, Charles Tomlinson Alan Bold, Edward Brathwaite, Edwin Morgan Jack Beeching, Harry Guest, Matthew Mead W. S. Graham, Kathleen Raine...
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James Edwin Campbell (September 28, 1867 – January 26, 1896) was an American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist. Campbell...
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Czech singer-songwriter. Mísia, 69, Portuguese fado singer, cancer. Peter Morgan, 65, Welsh rugby player (Llanelli, national team, British & Irish Lions)...
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