🚀 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...

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...

🌈 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

“So what was Glasgow like to a young gay writer in that period … You don’t go silent. You circumvent, you encode, you enfabulate … You work by methods not unlike those used by dissidents in authoritarian regimes.” —Edwin Morgan, “Transgression in Glasgow” #LGBTplusHM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ asls.org.uk/publications...

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...

Congratulations 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.

Today, 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...

goodk kkkkk unjam ingwe nches lass? start again goodk lassw enche sking start again kings tart! again sorry… —Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s Second Christmas Card” published in COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1990 #poem #poetry #concretepoetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754188...

Treat yersel with a listen to this!

This 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 🎄❄️

jollymerry 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

A 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) 🌒

Computer’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-...

Computer’s First Christmas Card: a Poetry/Coding workshop 4 Dec, Glasgow – free Inspired by Edwin Morgan’s poem, attendees at this Poetry/Coding workshop will code a festive poem & leave with a handmade Christmas card! No experience of coding or poetry necessary www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computers-...

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)

Call 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 [email protected] 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)

Rubbing 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...

In Translation: A Scottish-Slovenian Poetry Exchange 7 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free The @edmorgantrust.bsky.social brings together four poets working across Scottish Gaelic, Scots, & Slovene for a two-part exchange in Edinburgh & Ljubljana events.bookitbee.com/smlc/in-tran...

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 [email protected] to join online!

100 years today since the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Happy birthday IHF.

Today is the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay: one of Scotland's most innovative poets and artists. In August the SPL collaborated with the Little Sparta Trust for an afternoon of poetry at Little Sparta featuring Christopher Crawford, Nasim Rebecca Asl, Nazaret Ranea & Janette Ayachi #IHFcentenary

Today we celebrate the Centenary of the birth of Scottish poet, artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) by hosting a special screening of The Boat in the Writing Room: retracing the origins of Stonypath, Little Sparta tonight (Tues 28 Oct) 7-9pm Free. To book [email protected]

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...

📣 TODAY! Don’t miss Of Us & Others – a powerful new film by Maya Rose Edwards 🎬 Screening 12–5pm at Civic House (drop in anytime!). One day only – Sat 4 Oct! AGA’s first visual art commission supported by @creativescots.bsky.social & the Edwin Morgan Trust

“The use of Scots, apart from the relative ease of working up the right atmosphere, also helps (though dangerously) because of the verbal freedom it confers on a harassed translator” —Edwin Morgan on translating Mayakovsky into Scots #InternationalTranslationDay asls.org.uk/publications...

For #InternationalTranslationDay, Edwin Morgan’s translation of ‘Anyám’ by Hungarian poet Attila József (1905–1937) Published in Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)

Second hand book sites discoveries ! Including Edwin Morgan on Edwin Muir in The Review, February 1963 @edmorgantrust.bsky.social #edwinmuir #edwinmorgan #scottishliterature

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...

Of Us & Others is the result of our inaugural visual art Creative Commission with Maya Rose Edwards, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social Open Fund & @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Edward’s new film will screen for one day at Civic House, 04.10.25, from 12–5pm, on a rolling loop so pop in anytime!

“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...

ESSAY 'Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal' Pip Thornton asks if AI technologies will "disarm poetry and creative writing as tools of refusal." www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...

‘“When the facts of our lives can never be fully known there isn’t just room for fiction, there is a moral imperative for it. To write it. To paint it – to light a candle in the dark then pick up your pen or brush. Even, and especially, when the world is ending.” A wee essay tinyurl.com/ct6w3ynf

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)

FLYTE NYTE! Wed 20 Aug @ EIBF 🥊 Joelle Taylor versus Hannah Lavery 🥊 🥊 Michael Mullen versus Ross McLeary 🥊 🥊 Bee Asha versus Kate Ireland 🥊 🥊 Amelia Baylor versus Darren Connell 🥊 Hosted by Leyla Josephine, Colin Bramwell, Iona Lee. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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...

Applications 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

I've written about IH Finlay, Alexander Trocchi, and George MacDonald Fraser for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social Three centenaries, three tricky characters. An interesting commission this one.... booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/cent...

Edwin Morgan: A Legacy from Translation to Liberation 17 Aug @edbookfest.bsky.social – £15.50/£10.50 The @edmorgantrust.bsky.social event Writers including Colin Bramwell, Ellen McAteer, & Gregory Woods talk about poetry, queerness, translation, & freedom www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Reminded of this Edwin Morgan poem today. #edwinmorgan @carcanet.bsky.social

Join Colin Bramwell and Gregory Woods at events across Edinburgh International Book Festival, from 11th-20th August! Learn more here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/colin...

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...

Big congrats to Glasgow-based poet Michael Mullen for being shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes Best First Collection with his debut Goonie. #ForwardPrizes #BestFirstCollection #PoetryAwards