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The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Take Heart by Edwin Morgan 9781846975455
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.12Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan's poem 'Pelagius', the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan has the ability to enter into so many... -
Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and... -
Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950-2005 by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841409Author Edwin MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Association for Scottish... -
Cathures by Edwin Morgan 9781857546170
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other... -
Collected Translations by Edwin Morgan 9781857542530
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.60There is something profligate in the range and quality of Morgan's work as a translator. He does the labour of ten writers, and with blithe sprezzatura, partly at least because his own work nourishes... -
Play of Gilgamesh by Edwin Morgan 9781857548419
Booksplease Price: £12.99Edwin Morgan's verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense... -
Centenary Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the... -
The Poetry of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigal
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841157Author James McGonigalFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Association for Scottish... -
Collected Poems Edwin Morgan 9781857541885
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67To catch "in full sight" is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of sequences, in the reification of words in... -
Three Scottish Poets Edwin Morgan 9780862414009
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
The International Companion to Edwin Morgan by Alan Riach
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980144Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scottish Literature... -
Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity Colin Nicholson 9780719063619
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the... -
A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus by Edwin Morgan
Booksplease Price: £19.14Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time. A declaration of love from his closest... -
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan 9781857545883
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty,... -
Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan's Writing by Monika Kocot 9783631671405
RRP: £55.55Booksplease Price: £49.85Monika Kocot's book on Edwin Morgan's literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the author's creative design, and various,... -
A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry Edwin Morgan 9781836391968
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50Reveals Edwin Morgan’s groundbreaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice. -
Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac: (Scotnotes Study Guides) John Corbett 9781906841447
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.00Edwin Morgan's brilliant Glasgow-based Scots translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the most successful productions in modern Scottish theatre. Fresh, clever and dynamic,... -
Translating Beowulf - Modern Versions in English Verse by Hugh Magennis
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions. A senior scholar writing here at the height of his powers and... -
Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland Greg Thomas 9781802077087
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16This book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a... -
Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland by Greg Thomas 9781789620269
Booksplease Price: £119.01This book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a... -
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints... -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers... -
Anamnesis by Iona Lee 9781846976322
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining... -
A Handsel: New and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead 9781846976513
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91Liz Lochhead is one of the country's leading poets. Her work has paved the way and inspired some of the most inspirational voices writing in Scotland today, including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie,... -
Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020 WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS' POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION... -
Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary... -
Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades... -
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781857540284
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The Communicado Theatre's production of this verse rendering won the Edinburgh Fringe First award at the 1992 Festival, and has gone on to tour Scotland and England in 1992-3. Edwin Morgan provides... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £8.76The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
What They Say About You by Eddie Gibbons 9780955488511
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Eddie Gibbons' fourth full length collection, WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOU, is a poetry book like no other. Playful, thoughtful, inventive, and much larger than your average slim volume What They Say... -
All the Prayers in the House Miriam Nash 9781780373621
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first... -
The Wallace Muse: Poems and Artworks Inspired by the Life and Legend of William Wallace by Lesley Duncan 9781905222292
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06The Wallace Muse is an anthology of poem and song inspired by William Wallace - one of Scotland's greatest heroes - composed by some of Scotland's greatest writers. Robert Burns, William Wordsworth,... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Colin Nicholson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. The book combines thematic chapters... -
Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me... -
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement by Ian Gregson 9780333655658
Booksplease Price: £91.71Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets... -
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement by Ian Gregson 9780333655665
Booksplease Price: £91.59Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets... -
Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 by Nicola Thomas 9783030079635
Booksplease Price: £61.04Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- and... -
Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 by Nicola Thomas 9783319902111
Booksplease Price: £61.04Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- and... -
In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search... -
Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK by Ron Butlin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.12Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UKWhere Rockets Burn Through is a ground-breaking anthology of sci-fi poetry, featuring poems from over thirty writers...