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The Edwin Morgan Trust

@edmorgantrust.bsky.social

Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.

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Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social · last wk.

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Katherine Mendelsohn@katherinemend.bsky.social · last wk.

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to the six poets shortlisted for the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award! ✨Tom Bailey ✨Emmett Coleman ✨Zainab Imran ✨Flora Leask Arizpe ✨Kate Millar ✨Caitlin Palmer Find out more about the shortlist & read a selection of their poems on our website: edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/07/03/e...

EMPA 2026: Shortlist

The Edwin Morgan Trust is delighted to announce the poets shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2026! Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2026 shortlist Tom Bailey for Bonaly Reservoir Tom Bailey is …

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So what do you want? The morning, perhaps, and then I want the day, another day. — ‘21 June’ by Edwin Morgan, published in Cathures (Carcanet, 2002) #summersolstice☀️

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A major new exhibition, ‘Rain’, opens today at the NLS ft. Edwin Morgan’s love-drenched poem ‘Kiss me...’ ☔ The exhibition showcases the breadth of the NLS collections, spanning poetry, literature, music & more for people to explore their own relationship to rain. www.nls.uk/whats-on/rain/

Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A pleasure to go back to Ox for the Oxford Weidenfeld prize. Unexpectedly, Fower Pessoas won the prize and all. Its last Scottish/Scots winner was Edwin Morgan, for his translation of Racine's Phèdra, back in 2001 (also published by Carcanet). Here's what the judges had to say about mine:

Dr Robbie MacLeòid @robbiemacleoid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Pride my loves! If you want to read Strawberries in Gaelic, a reminder you can see my Edwin Morgan translations over on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website: edwinmorgantrust.com/2021/03/22/r... #gàidhlig #pròis

Robbie MacLeòid – Dàin Edwin Morgan

An Dà Shaoghal – A zine of Gàidhlig translations of seven Edwin Morgan poems of love, desire, and sex by Robbie MacLeòid. Robbie has shared the acanned zine, a selection of audio recorded rea…

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Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2mo ago

There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open french window… —Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries”🍓 from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry #PrideMonth #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Strawberries
Edwin Morgan

There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon
sitting on the step
of the open french window
facing each other
your knees held in mine
the blue plates in our laps
the strawberries glistening
in the hot sunlight
we dipped them in sugar
looking at each other
not hurrying the feast
for one to come
the empty plates

laid on the stone together
with the two forks crossed
and I bent towards you
sweet in that air
in my arms
abandoned like a child
from your eager mouth
the taste of strawberries
in my memory
lean back again
let me love you

let the sun beat
on our forgetfulness
one hour of all
the heat intense
and summer lightning
on the Kilpatrick hills

let the storm wash the plates

Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s Pride Month in the UK. Not sure we’ve ever needed it more. Here’s a documentary I made for Radio 4 on the history, history-makers and future of Pride. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Fifty Years of Pride

Damian Barr examines how Pride has helped bring about change for the LGBTQ+ community.

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon ... Thanks to Lesley Duncan for featuring Edwin Morgan’s juicy summer classic in The Herald’s Weekend Magazine on Saturday 🍓❤️

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

...How often will I think you, until our dying steps forget this light, forget that we ever knew the happy glen, or that I ever said, We must jump into the sun, and we jumped into the sun. ☀️💚 ‘From a City Balcony’ by #EdwinMorgan, written in May 1964 & published in The Second Life (EUP, 1968)

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please take a look at Greg’s crowdfunding campaign to support the publication of ‘Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay’, which will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, a collaborator, a friend, and sometimes an adversary ⬇️

Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

@grantrintoul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Still my favourite found poem.

The Edwin Morgan Trust@edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ Happy birthday Eddie! ✨ On what would’ve been #EdwinMorgan ’s 106th birthday, we’re sharing some of the wonderful poems written in tribute to Eddie over the years ... 1/6

AScottishBookCollector @noahdidny.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3mo ago

Push the boat out, compañeros, push the boat out, whatever the sea… —Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”: a poem written for his own 80th birthday Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵 #poem #poetry 1/14 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

At Eighty
by Edwin Morgan

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are,
the enemy of us all makes sure of it!
Mariners, keep good watch always
for that last passage of blue water
we have heard of and long to reach
(no matter if we cannot, no matter!)
in our eighty-year-old timbers
leaky and patched as they are but sweet
well seasoned with the scent of woods
long perished, serviceable still
in unarrested pungency
of salt and blistering sunlight. Out,
push it all out into the unknown!
Unknown is best, it beckons best,
like distant ships in mist, or bells
clanging ruthless from stormy buoys.

Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And a couple of musical tributes:

Trio | Daily Reckless

Edwin Morgan reading 'Trio' backed by 'Boom Boom' by Trio. Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm Chihuahua! see also:

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ Happy birthday Eddie! ✨ On what would’ve been #EdwinMorgan ’s 106th birthday, we’re sharing some of the wonderful poems written in tribute to Eddie over the years ... 1/6

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy #WorldArtDay! 🎨 In 2005, #EdwinMorgan wrote 10 poems responding to the 10 artworks named as Scotland’s favourite paintings held in Scottish public collections. EM’s personal favourite among the works was ‘Flood Tide’ (1962) by #JoanEardley, painted the year before she died.

Flood Tide

Joan Eardley

Lonely people are drawn to the sea.
Not for this artist the surge and glitter of salons,
Clutch of a sherry or making polite conversation.
See her when she is free: -
Striding into the salty bluster of a cliff-top
In her paint-splashed corduroys,
Humming as she recalls the wild shy boys
She sketched in the city, allowing nature's nations
Of grasses and wild shy flowers to stick
To the canvas they were blown against
By the mighty Catterline wind -
All becomes art, and as if it was incensed
By the painter's brush the sea growls up
In a white flood
The artist's cup is overflowing with what she dares
To think is joy, caught unawares
As if on the wing. A solitary clover,
Unable to read WET PAINT, rolls over
Once, twice, and then it's fixed,
Part of a field more human than the one
That took the gale and is now
As she is, beyond the sun.

Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🖋️ NEW SPL BLOG POST! Taylor Strickland writes on the Corbenic Poetry Path which "meanders through uplands, woodlands, and riverside, featuring some of the country’s most notable poets, among them Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay and John Glenday." www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2026/04/corb...

Corbenic Poetry Path

Creative Development Officer Taylor Strickland writes about the 10th anniversary of a unique poetry path Jon Plunkett’s normally warm Belfast accent cools. Over a call, he reveals the more challenging...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4mo ago

Three o’clock. Yer hot cross buns ur in the oven fur another nine minutes. The soup will be tested at some point the mora, or maybe oan Sunday… —Charles Lang, “Good Friday (After Edwin Morgan)” from NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 40 (ASL, 2022) #Easter #poem #poetry #GoodFriday asls.org.uk/publications...

Charles Lang
Good Friday

After Edwin Morgan

Three o’clock. Yer hot cross buns ur in the oven
fur another nine minutes. The soup will be tested at some point
the mora, or maybe oan Sunday. The world is oor oyster!
There’ll be nae eggs this year fur a few reasons.

I press play oan the telly: a recordin ae Tuesday night’s Eastenders
preceded by the last minute n a hof ae Tuesday night’s news.
That feels like such a long time ago. The days aw feel the same
but everythin is movin quickly. I fast forward through the theme tune.

lan is feelin guilty fur the part he played in Dennis’s death.
Blackmail is a wonderful thing. Dotty is usin it tae take control ae the Arches.
Will Sharon ever find oot? Will Mick sell the Queen Vic?
Did Carole Baskin kill her disappeared husband n feed him tae her lucrative tigers?

These ur things ye need tae think aboot. The questions
that need tae be answered. Is it possible tae eat mer than three
cream crackers withoot a drink a watter? How many days
will it take me tae complete this 1000-piece New Yorker jigsaw?

TBC. Maybe I’ll dae it the mora, maybe I’ll dae it next week.
Tell ye wit I’ll get most ae it oot the wiy the mora, efter ma soup,
takin a break at aboot three o’clock fur a wee coffee.
The hot cross buns, by the way: outstandin.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4mo ago

…ye’ll maybe think it’s a – funny day to be celebrating – well, no, but ye see I wasny working, and I like to celebrate when I’m no working… —Edwin Morgan, “Good Friday” from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #Easter #poem #poetry #GoodFriday www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

Good Friday
Edwin Morgan

Three o’clock. The bus lurches
round into the sun. “D’s this go –”
he flops beside me – “right along Bath Street?
– Oh tha’s, tha’s all right, see I’ve
got to get some Easter eggs for the kiddies.
I’ve had a wee drink, ye understand –
ye’ll maybe think it’s a – funny day
to be celebrating – well, no, but ye see
I wasny working, and I like to celebrate
when I’m no working – I don’t say it’s right
I’m no saying it’s right, ye understand – ye understand?
But anyway tha’s the way I look at it –
I’m no boring you, eh? – ye see today,
take today, I don’t know what today’s in aid of,
whether Christ was – crucified or was he –
rose fae the dead like, see what I mean?
You’re an educatit man, you can tell me –
– Aye, well. There ye are. It’s been seen
time and again, the working man
has nae education, he jist canny – jist
hasny got it, know what I mean,
he’s jist bliddy ignorant – Christ aye,
bliddy ignorant. Well –” The bus brakes violently,
he lunges for the stair, swings down – off,
into the sun for his Easter eggs,
on very‍‍
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4mo ago

Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring. Soaring metal is flight and nest together… —Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry #Artemis www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

A Home in Space
Edwin Morgan

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring.
Soaring metal is flight and nest together.
Together they must hatch.
Hatches let the welders out.
Out went the whitesuit riggers with frames as light as air.
Air was millions under lock and key.
Key-ins had computers wild on Saturday nights.
Nights, days, months, years they lived in space.
Space shone black in their eyes.
Eyes, hands, food-tubes, screens, lenses, keys were one.
One night – or day – or month – or year – they all –
all gathered at the panel and agreed –
agreed to cut communication with –
with the earth base – and it must be said they were –
were cool and clear as they dismantled the station and –
and gave their capsule such power that –
that they launched themselves outwards –
outwards in an impeccable trajectory, that band –
that band of tranquil defiers, not to plant any –
any home with roots but to keep a –
a voyaging generation voyaging, and as far –
as far as there would ever be a home in space –
space that needs time and time that needs life.

The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Calling all Gaelic publishers and writers! 📣 There's less than a month to the deadline for applications to The Gaelic Literature Awards 2026! Send in your published books and unpublished manuscripts before Friday 1st of May: www.gaelicbooks.org/support-for-...

The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are delighted to announce that the Ubiquitous Chip murals by Alasdair Gray have been Category B listed by Historic Environment Scotland as a result of our support of the designation application!

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5mo ago

“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood” @gregchthomas.bsky.social looks at how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan #poetry #concretepoetry www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am...

‘I am Iron Bard’: Edwin Morgan, Concrete Poetry and the Glasgow High Rises - The Bottle Imp

In 1964, Edwin Morgan wrote a concrete poem in homage to the nineteenth-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a bridge-shaped graphic verse probably intended to mimic Brunel’s design for the Clift...

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The Edwin Morgan Trust@edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Concrete Poetry Workshop Inspired by Edwin Morgan Discover the strange & wonderful world of Edwin Morgan’s concrete poetry & create your own visual poems in this workshop led by Greg Thomas! 🗓️ Fri 15 May 🕑 2–4 p.m. 📍 Paisley Town Hall 🎟️ £12 (£10 conc.) paisleybookfestival.com/programme/co...

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Concrete Poetry Workshop Inspired by Edwin Morgan | Paisley Book Festival

Discover the strange and wonderful world of Edwin Morgan’s concrete poetry and create your own visual poems in this workshop led by Greg Thomas.

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 5mo ago

‘It will take a good strong rat to snap, but there are good strong rats.’ — ‘Trap’ by #EdwinMorgan, first published in Grafts (1983) and published here in Dreams and Other Nightmares (Mariscat Press, 2010) 🐀

The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PLEASE SHARE! 🌿 Alasdair Gray & David Stephen: Eden in North Lanarkshire Sat 14 March 2026, Palacerigg Country Park Visitor Centre. An illustrated afternoon celebrating art, nature & Scotland’s industrial heartland. Book via link below 👇🏽

Alasdair Gray & David Stephen: Eden in North Lanarkshire

An illustrated talk discussing two iconic Scots as part of 'Cumbernauld Creates at Palacerigg', a new arts and writing festival.

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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For the #YearOfTheHorse🐎 – Edwin Morgan’s ‘Centaur’, first published in The Horseman’s Word (1970)

The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 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...

A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry

A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound PoetryPre-order a copy from Reaktion Books Edited by Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone, this volume brings together, for the first time, the full …

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Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Poems on the Underground Celebrating 40 Years Poem of the Week January 31st The Loch Ness Monster's Song by Edwin Morgan poemsontheunderground.org/the-loch-nes...

The Loch Ness Monster’s Song

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌈 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