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Edwin Barber Morgan (May 2, 1806 – October 13, 1881) was an entrepreneur and politician from the Finger Lakes region of western New York. He was the first president of Wells Fargo & Company, founder of the United States Express Company, and director of American Express Company.
The immense body of work published by Edwin Morgan since 1952 might suggest an imperious project of cultural domination, but no one having the slightest acquaintance with Morgan’s poetry would think so: his writing offers an extremely rare combination of epic scope with lightness of touch.
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Edwin Morgan B. 1920 D. 2010. the most dynamic, brilliant, free-wheeling poet around, endlessly accessible and inventive - The Scotsman
One of Scotland’s most beloved poets, and Glasgow’s first poet laureate, Edwin Morgan, was born in Glasgow and lived there for most of his life.
Edwin Morgan. Scotland’s first official Makar in modern times, Edwin Morgan was endlessly inventive, inquiring, energetic, internationalist, and deeply committed to his home city of Glasgow. A book of poems in his honour, Unknown Is Best, was produced to celebrate Morgan’s eightieth birthday in 2000.
This selection of unpublished poems by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), and by some younger Scottish poets whose work he has advanced, comes from two different points of transition: from the start of the seventies and of the 2020s.
This introduction to the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award is part of a portfolio of work by Edwin Morgan (introduced by James McGonigal), with poems by the three winners of the award. Read Penny Boxall’s poems here and here , and Niall Campbell’s here and here .
