The Edwin Morgan Trust

Can you help save Edinburgh’s cherished arts and culture hub? Summerhall is under threat - can you sign the petition to demand the Council stop its redevelopment destroying the vibrant arts community?✍️🙏 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Annals of the trilled R, gently stroked L, Lamenting O of local literature, Open, on this, their one-page book, a still Land-language chattered in a river’s burr… —Douglas Dunn (1942–2026), “The Harp of Renfrewshire” from NEW SELECTED POEMS 1964–2000 (Faber, 2003) www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

‘But you must agree with it, and love it, even when it grows too fierce for favour.’ Words of advice from the great poem-maker Edwin Morgan – happy #NationalPoetryDay! — ‘Making a Poem’, published in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990)

Last November, Gaelic and Scots were recognised as official languages in Scotland for the first time. As the new editors of GRB, we are pleased to present new trilingual poems this National Poetry Day by Harry Josephine Giles. tinyurl.com/3w8ahz3f

Many thanks to Stuart Kelly for this wonderful review of A Home in Space – “a necessary joy” – in The Scotsman yesterday, alongside a fabulous selection of Scottish poetry by Colin Bramwell, Kristján Norge and the late, great John Burnside. @essencepress.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social

Some photos of the 'Widening the Horizon: Scotland's Translators for the Stage' event @summerhallarts.bsky.social this week. [photographer credit: Isolde Nash] cc @magnorththeatre.bsky.social @scotsocplaywrights.bsky.social @edmorgantrust.bsky.social @playwrightsstudio.bsky.social

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Congratulations Tom Bailey and Zainab Imran, winners of the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award! 💚🎉

Bring back the wolf! He’s not long gone, you know. He went out when sheep came in. Sheep cleared men and women. Now let wolves clear sheep… —Edwin Morgan, “Wolf” in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020) A #poem for #InternationalWolfDay 🐺 www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

A number of events are taking place over the coming weeks to celebrate the publication of A HOME IN SPACE, which brings together, for the first time, the full range of Edwin Morgan’s visual and sound poetry. Info and tickets at the link below! edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...

Huge thanks to @magnorththeatre.bsky.social @scotsocplaywrights.bsky.social @edmorgantrust.bsky.social @playwrightsstudio.bsky.social

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☀️

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/

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:

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

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...

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 🍓❤️

...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)

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 ⬇️

Still my favourite found poem.

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/

And a couple of musical tributes:

🖋️ 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...

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...

…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...

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...

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-...

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!

“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...

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...

‘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) 🐀

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 👇🏽

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

🚀 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...