Categories

The First Men on Mercury

PART OF THE Young Voices ISSUE

Edwin Morgan’s science fiction poem as a comic strip

Voyage into outer space with this fun adaptation of Edwin Morgan’s science fiction poem The First Men on Mercury, first published in 1973, produced here by Glasgow-based designers Metaphrog and educational charity ASLS.

FMOMCOMIC

FMOMCOMIC 2
FMOMCOMIC 3
4 FMOMCOMIC

This comic adaptation of Edwin Morgan’s The First Men on Mercury, by Glasgow-based design duo Metaphrog, was commissioned as part of an ASLS initiative to mark National Poetry Day in 2009. A learning and teaching resource for Scottish schools, it is reproduced here with kind permission.

Share this

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Spontaneous click Spontaneous

‘The janitor probably figured he’d only have to scrub guts off one whiteboard this year’

READ MORE

Ella Fitzgerald: First Discovery Music click Ella Fitzgerald: First Discovery Music

‘She dreams of being able to perform at the Savoy Ballroom’

READ MORE