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PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780719063602

RRP: £40.00

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 10, 2002

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Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity

Colin Nicholson

Edwin Morgan is at the forefront of Scottish (and British) literature, having written plays, translations and poems for over 60 years; he is the Poet Laureate of Glasgow and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000. Containing an autobiographical sequence, this biography is written by Colin Nicholson, who has known the poet for a number of years.

Reviews of Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity

"Though not a conventional life and works, this valuable full-length study looks at the poet's evolution."–J. Walker, Choice

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