‘But you must agree
with it, and love it,
even when it grows
too fierce for favour.’
Words of advice from the great poem-maker Edwin Morgan – happy #NationalPoetryDay!
— ‘Making a Poem’, published in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1990)
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Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
![A Home in Space, a collection of Morgan’s more esoteric works – “selected concrete, visual and sound poetry” – is a necessary joy. Although some have been printed before, to see them in the original typewriter form is a wonderful harking back to when innovation did not mean clicking home / font / 14 point. There is an edginess that is in his more well known work; a sense of the glimpse and the overlooked being significant. [...] The editors, Julie Johnstone and Greg Thomas, should be commended for a book that is as beautiful as it is necessary, and which underlines how the avant-garde – Morgan, Hamilton Finlay, Riddell, Forrest-Thomas, WS Graham – was fundamental to Scottish poetics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knjov5teuricujoqalv72ugl/bafkreia5zc5fmr656pf3qcw6cdmk33ku2s5dzefqbeosyu3vofh7lefmni)
