Edwin Morgan, a gentle genius

Just wanted to pay tribute to the Scottish Makar Edwin Morgan, who has died. The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy called him a gentle genuis. The Glasgow poet Liz Lochhead said: "He made it clear that poetry could be about anything, from outer space to the cancer cell, of everything from ordinary scenes of people on buses, to intensely personal gay love poems. What his poetry said to me was life, and life abundantly."

 I would like to write a timeous and extensive tribute but feel others have done it better. I would therefore direct you to edwinmorgan.com  There is also some marvellous material on Bellacaledonia and of course The Scottish Poetry Library

Comments

[A reader]

Of all the things that have been written this week about the passing of two great minds in Scotland, there is a gap. There is no doubt Jimmy Reid was a great orator and scholar and this has been covered. There is also no doubt Edwin Morgan was a great poet and translator (regardless of my own love/hate view on poetry) and this was also covered and will be more so over the weekend.

But nowhere have I heard it said that Mr Morgan was also a great speaker of poetry - a great orator in his own way - with a sonorous voice that lent more power to his words than I have found to date outwith music and the very best writing.