Edwin Morgan Trust

Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan. Find us on Bluesky and Instagram @edmorgantrust

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Delighted to announce the appointment of Maya Rose Edwards as our FIRST VISUAL ARTIST COMMISSION, responding to queer forms and kinship in the works of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan, supported by @CreativeScots and @EdMorganTrust

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Join us at AGA on Tuesday 01.04.25 from 5-7pm for a free workshop which will share findings from @_domenicodr @EdMorganTrust supported research project.
➡️ 25 spaces
➡️ To secure your spot, please email [email protected]

[Skein Press @SkeinPress]

Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there!📙#books

[Skein Press @SkeinPress]

Stoked to see ‘New Shoes’ by Charles
Lang, from his brilliant #poetry collection The Oasis, featured as Poem of the Week in today’s @TheScotsman! 👟🩶

“The Oasis is the real deal”, you heard it here first! 🤫 Pick up a copy at your favourite bookshop today!

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

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Free workshop at AGA sharing findings from @_domenicodr @EdMorganTrust supported research project on the personal &artistic connections between Gray and Morgan.

➡️ 25 spaces available
➡️ To secure your spot, please email [email protected]

[Glasgow Libraries @GlasgowLib]

✍🏾 There's a new blog on our Special Collections page!

Click to read about some rare signed editions in the Edwin Morgan Collection.

@edmorgantrust @Agrayarchive

https://t.co/VX4zr3CmCr

[Katherine Mendelsohn🕷🐟@katherinemend.bsky.social @Katheri48033429]

Can you help? There's no centralised script archive of Scotland's stage translators' staged works 1974-now, but support from @ssp_playwrights @EdMorganTrust is helping change that (my research with @magnorththeatre ).

Any detail might be useful! 🙏
https://t.co/Bch4uNI9Bp

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Apply! Deadline today! Creative Commission with @EdMorganTrust supported by @CreativeScots

[Edwin Morgan Trust @EdMorganTrust]

“I wanted to honour Scots in a dramatic, vocal context, just as Morgan did in his translations, and so I’ve tried to bring Pessoa to life in that new context”

Great Q&A with Colin Bramwell in The Madrid Review on his new collection FOWER PESSOAS 👇
https://t.co/FkMTxV1vc2

[The GSA Choir @GSAChoir]

🔦Artist Spotlight: Jay Capperauld

The GSA Choir has worked with Jay previously, commissioning him, in 2017, to write ‘The Unspoken’, based upon Edwin Morgan's love poem of the same name.

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[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Sharing the first of two comparative studies of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work from 1967-84, supported by @EdMorganTrust created by @_domenicodr for #lgbtplushistorymonth

Sonnets from Scotland is considered the most pivotal poetry collection of the 1980s in Scotland and

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Sharing the second of two timeline posts based on @_domenicodr’s excellent research in relation to Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work, supported by @EdMorganTrust
Timeline post 2: 1988-2004.. Despite Scotland’s delayed decriminalisation of same-sex relations in 1980,

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

Sharing the first of two timeline posts looking at Independence and Cultural/Legal attitudes towards Queer kinship based on @_domenicodr excellent research in relation to Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work, supported by @EdMorganTrust

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

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Exciting new commission now LIVE to apply via link in bio, a partnership with @EdMorganTrust under the theme of ‘Queer forms & kinship’ deadline 07.03.25 👇🏽supported by @CreativeScots

[The Alasdair Gray Archive @AGrayArchive]

To mark #lgbtplushistorymonth we are sharing our collaboration with @EdMorganTrust. Alasdair & Edwin were close friends with much of their work connecting through themes of sexuality and love. Recently researcher @_domenicodr has been mapping these connections.

[Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* On Sale @lozzawriting]

Go on then. This one ... @blackboughpoems
@EdMorganTrust

[Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* On Sale @lozzawriting]

@Rhona_Greene @blackboughpoems @EdMorganTrust Man was a genius, in my view.
Something for all.
Feeling sick, Edwin Morgan, sad, Edwin Morgan, hungry, Edwin Morgan, happy, Edwin Morgan, silly Edwin Morgan, feeling like you want your heart pulled out of your chest through your mouth, Edwin Morgan.

[Edwin Morgan Trust @EdMorganTrust]

... and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

❣️ ‘When you go’ by Edwin Morgan, published in The Second Life (1968)

[Skein Press @SkeinPress]

📢 We will be launching *The Oasis* in style on a mini three-city tour in March! Come join us along the way!

Dublin: March 5 at MoLI
🎟️: https://t.co/FH0z3eB2ID
Belfast: March 6 at No Alibis
🎟️: https://t.co/5PLVwBx5DO
London: March 19 at Bàrd Books
🎟️: https://t.co/jkSi3kS3Ij

[Estorick Collection @Estorick]

Despite their often highly complex and layered character, Dom Sylvester Houédard used a standard Olivetti Lettera 22 to create his ‘typestracts’ (a portmanteau word coined by his fellow poet Edwin Morgan, combining the terms ‘typewriter’ and ‘abstract’). #ExperiementalPoetry