Edwin Morgan Trust

“I wanted to honour Scots in a dramatic, vocal context, just as Morgan did in his translations, and so I’ve tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context”

Great Q&A with Colin Bramwell in The Madrid Review on his new collection FOWER PESSOAS 👇
themadridreview.com/f/fower-pessoa…

... and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

❣️ ‘When you go’ by Edwin Morgan, published in The Second Life (1968)

“The law was changed in England in 1967. It wasn’t changed in Scotland until 1980. We were still in a kind of inhibited state all through that time.”

— from ‘Edwin Morgan in Conversation’, an interview with Gerry Cambridge for The Dark Horse in 1997.

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‘I owe everything, in a sense, to that relationship.’

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In 2000 Scotland voted to repeal Section 28, which had prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” in schools. Morgan’s poem ‘Section 28’ challenges a vocal opponent of the repeal, Cardinal Winning, whose regressive views lose him his place in heaven.

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