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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781857549188

RRP: £9.95

PAGES: 105

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 22, 2007

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A Book of Lives

No wonder Edwin Morgan is Scotland’s best-loved poet. His poems teem with lives and loves and are marked by an unusual love of the present and the future. He finds forms for themes and ideas just out of reach. In his latest collection poems both profound and witty are to be found: occasional verse that transcends its occasion, explorations of the human condition conducted with a virtuosic lightness of touch. “A Book of Lives” draws together the themes that inform his poetic world. The largest vistas of human history, from twenty billion years BC to 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’; Scotland from Bannockburn to the opening of the Scottish parliament; portraits – of Rimbaud, the emperor Hirohito, Raeburn’s skating Reverend Walker…Poems for birthdays and elegies celebrate friends; a dramatic dialogue about cancer sets personal experience in a wry evolutionary context. At the heart of the collection, a major sequence, “Love and a Life”, affirms the inextinguishable energies of love and art.

Reviews of A Book of Lives

'Edwin Morgan is the most dynamic, brilliant, free-wheeling poet around, endlessly accessible and inventive, glorious refreshment.' The Scotsman 'Morgan's poetry has always been large, vigorous and imaginative. It has been energetic and various.' lain Crichton Smith

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