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Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
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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
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(written in bright green text, in a monospaced font on a black background, to emulate an old CRT computer monitor; the text is divided up into blocks of five letters each) The Computer's Second Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan goodk kkkkk unjam ingwe nches lass? start again goodk lassw enche sking start again kings tart! again sorry goodk ingwe ncesl ooked outas thef? unmix asloo kedou tonth effff rewri tenow goodk ingwe ncesl asloo kedou tonth effff fffff unjam feast ofsai ntste venst efanc utsai ntrew ritef easto fstep toeso rryan dsons orry! start again good? yesgo odkin gwenc eslas looke dout? doubt wrong track start again goodk ingwe ncesl asloo kedou tonth efeas tofst ephph phphp hphph unjam phphp repea tunja mhphp scrub carol hphph repea tscru bcaro lstop subst itute track merry chris tmasa ndgoo dnewy earin 1699? check digit banks orryi n1966 endme ssage
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Treat yersel with a listen to this!
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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 🎄❄️
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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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/
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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 🎄❄️
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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
(written in bright green text, in a monospaced font on a black background, to emulate an old CRT computer monitor) The Computer's First Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan jollymerry hollyberry jollyberry merryholly happyjolly jollyjelly jellybelly bellymerry hollyheppy jollyMolly marryJerry merryHarry hoppyBarry heppyJarry bobbyheppy berryjorry jorryjolly moppyjelly Mollymerry Jerryjolly bellyboppy jorryhoppy hollymoppy Barrymerry Jarryhappy happyboppy boppyjolly jollymerry merrymerry merrymerry merryChris ammerryasa Chrismerry asMERRYCHR YSANTHEMUM
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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... 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) 🌒
But Glasgow days and grey weathers, when the rain beat on the bus shelter and you leaned slightly against me, and the back of your hand touched my hand in the shadows, and nothing was said, when your hair grazed mine accidentally as we talked in a cafe, yet not quite accidentally, when I stole a glance at your face as we stood in a doorway and found I was afraid of what might happen if I should never see it again, when we met, and met, in spite of such differences in our lives, and did the common things that in our feeling became extraordinary, 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 (but we are bound by nothing, but like smoke to mist or light in water we move, and mix) — O then it was a story as old as war or man, and although we have not said it we know it, and although we have not claimed it we do it, and although we have not vowed it we keep it, without a name to the end.
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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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.

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Computer's First Christmas Card: a Poetry/Coding workshop
Poetry Coding Workshop with the Edwin Morgan Collection. An introduction to coding and poetry with Michael Mullen and Claire Quigley.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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
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Computer's First Christmas Card: a Poetry/Coding workshop
Poetry Coding Workshop with the Edwin Morgan Collection. An introduction to coding and poetry with Michael Mullen and Claire Quigley.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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)
Look now, look quick – a shooting star! Make your wish! It’s very far From here to where the active light Set out and streaked across a night In Glasgow’s greatly dark November To die there, a supernal ember. 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, Spark after spark, scattering, dying, You could send your wishes flying In thousands, born, reborn, delighting To be part of that bright sighting Which disappears and yet appears Again in our unlonely years.
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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 ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026
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October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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)
Horsemen It was late, a wintry evening, and I was in the old flat looking out at everything familiar, all the details of every neighbouring house quite clear under streetlights when are the corner by the lamp I saw them – horses and their men talking together, their hoof clatter and whispering (the Horseman's word I'd read about but cannot speak), Their great flanks, fetlocks, ancient and out of place in Glasgow now, under the street lamp at my corner where they should not have been. And as I stared at them talking together all at once every light went out and I was left in darkness with that sound of hooves, beating, retreating –
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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
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Edwin Morgan Aberdeen Train Rubbing a glistening circle on the steamed-up window I framed a pheasant in a field of mist. The sun was a great red thing somewhere low, struggling with the milky scene. In the furrows a piece of glass winked into life, hypnotized the silly dandy; we hooted past him with his head cocked, contemplating a bottle-end, and this was the last of October, a Chinese moment in the Mearns.
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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
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In Translation: A Scottish-Slovenian Poetry Exchange
In Translation: A Scottish-Slovenian Poetry Exchange
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October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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 arts-cclt@glasgow.ac.uk to join online!
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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100 years today since the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Happy birthday IHF.
A picture of Ian Hamilton Finlay flying paper planes at his home, Stonypath.
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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 info@pierartscentre.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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)
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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 👇
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The Open the Doors Fund: Applications Open
The Open the Doors Fund is a new small grants scheme inspired by the words of Edwin Morgan: Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; Light of the mind, shine out! With grants of up to £1,000 ava…
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October 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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📣 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
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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“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
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Annual Volume 48 (2018)
Edited by John Coyle and James McGonigal Paperback, 424 pages ASLS, April 2020 Price £24.95 ISBN 978-1-906841-40-9 Order from our bookshop “I try to write something every day even though I am not…
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September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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For #InternationalTranslationDay, Edwin Morgan’s translation of ‘Anyám’ by Hungarian poet Attila József (1905–1937)

Published in Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)
My Mother She would hold the mug in both hands, one Sunday as evening approached she smiled in her own peaceful way and sat a moment in the half dark A small saucepan held the super she brought home from the fine folks’ house we went to bed, and I lay thinking how they had a whole pot to devour – This was my mother, tiny, early dead, a washerwoman’s lot is to die early, her legs shake from the loads she carries, her head throbs as she bends ironing – And her mountains are the dirty washing! She has a tranquilizing cloudscape of steam, and as for pastures new the washerwoman has the attic – She pauses with the iron: I see her. Her brittle body was broken by capital, grew thin, grew thinner – think about it, proletarians – She was bent, you know, bent from washing, I never knew how young she was, she wore a clean apron in her dreams, and the postman greeted her then –
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Second hand book sites discoveries !

Including Edwin Morgan on Edwin Muir in The Review, February 1963

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#edwinmorgan
#scottishliterature
September 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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

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The Canedolia Collaboration: Applications Open
The Canedolia Collaboration is a new partnership scheme named after Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘Canedolia’, a celebration of language, place and possibility. This initiative builds on the success of The S…
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September 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM