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...

#EnglishScotland www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2587/...

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

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...

There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open french window… —Edwin Morgan, “Strawberries” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 Hot #poetry for a hot day 🍓🍓🍓 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

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...

Speaking as a sweaty smorgasbord for the wee bastards, this poem makes me itch.

We are currently seeking new Trustees, as well as members to join the EMT Advisory Group. If you’re passionate about supporting the development of Scottish poetry and translation and want to help shape the future of the EMT, we would love to hear from you! ⬇️ edwinmorgantrust.com/news/

Keep at them, ladies. This is a feast. This is a midsummer night’s dream... — ‘Midge’ by #EdwinMorgan, published here in Edwin Morgan Twenties: Menagerie (Polygon, 2020) ☀️🪰

We are currently seeking new Trustees, as well as members to join the EMT Advisory Group. If you’re passionate about supporting the development of Scottish poetry and translation and want to help shape the future of the EMT, we would love to hear from you! ⬇️ edwinmorgantrust.com/news/

⏰ Applications for CLYDEBUILT 18 close tomorrow at 5 pm! Clydebuilt offers emerging poets in Scotland the opportunity to work with an experienced mentor over the course of a year + develop a portfolio of new work. Visit our website to find out how to apply👇 edwinmorgantrust.com/2025/04/24/c...

... It is midsummer and till my voice broke, 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 I loved to sing ... ☀️ Edwin Morgan on the melancholy of #midsummer, and remembering those you love. — ‘Fires’, published in Centenary Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2020)

New from me on Substack: I couldn’t miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern: 30 years on its time to make a panel for my late partner. open.substack.com/pub/chriscre...

Spacebreaker! Wildship! Starman! ... take poets on your voyages! 🚀 Edwin Morgan’s poem written for the International Poetry Incarnation, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall 60 years ago today. (1/3)

The unveiling of new poetry inscribed stones at the Canongate Wall - @scotparl.bsky.social Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP with former Scotland national Makars Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Liz Lochhead.

Alexander Trocchi at 100 12–13 June, Glasgow To mark the centenary of ‘the Scottish Beat’, Alexander Trocchi’s birth, @uofglasgow.bsky.social will be staging a 2-day event: a screening of David Mackenzie’s adaptation of YOUNG ADAM (2003) at the GFT, & a symposium at Kelvin Hall