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James McGonigal

James McGonigal is a poet was a lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow. He was, for many years, a close friend and confidant of the poet, Edwin Morgan and wrote an acclaimed biography of the poet, Beyond the Last Dragon, in 2010.

McGonigal also co-edited Morgan’s letters: The Midnight Letterbox: selected correspondence 1950-2010 was published by Carcanet Press in 2015, followed by Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950-2005 (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, 2020)

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