Guest blog post by Dr James Rann, Lecturer in Russian, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow It was the war that had sent me back to the archive and it was the war I found there. In… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan
Scrapbooking Old English with Edwin Morgan – ‘the nerves must sometimes tingle and the skin flush’.
Guest blog post by Dr Francesca Brooks, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York with the Department of English and Related Literature, and University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow In the preface to his 1952 translation of Beowulf,… Read More ›
‘Behind the Tartan Curtain’: Edwin Morgan in the University of Glasgow Archive
Blog post contributed by Catriona Perry, Graduate Trainee, Archives &Special Collections Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) was Glasgow’s first Poet Laureate and Scotland’s first National Poet (The Scots Makar), and had a long association with the University of Glasgow. To mark the… Read More ›
“Poetry About Everything, Words About Nothing”: a consideration on Edwin Morgan and John Cage’s approach to creativity.
Guest blog post by Eli Coderoni Rigamonti, MLitt Theatre Studies, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. This article aims to draw a connection between artists Edwin Morgan and John Cage, focusing on their common interest for Modernist techniques, and… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan: The ‘Most Readable’ Translations of a Genius Poet. 17 May 2019
A guest blog post by Charlotte Lynn Smith, MLitt Theatre Studies, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. Over the past few months, I have been in the Special Collections in the University of Glasgow Library, which holds the Edwin… Read More ›
Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector
By Kerry Patterson, Project Officer: Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks. This blog was originally posted on the CREATe website available at: http://www.create.ac.uk/. CREATe is the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan & Surrealism
From around 1960, the poet Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) began to build up an art collection, which he donated to the Hunterian Art Gallery in 2004. Before he had the means to buy art, the sixteen volumes of his Scrapbooks were a… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan: cutting up and scribbling in books
Although we don’t welcome new additions or deletions to the material in our care, existing annotations and interventions are often what make a book particularly interesting and unique. This might be as simple as a previous owner inscribing their name,… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan & The Fortean Society
Looking through Edwin Morgan’s series of 16 Scrapbooks, it is apparent that he had a keen eye for unusual news stories. The cuttings include reports of UFO, ghost and Loch Ness Monster sightings as well as quirky tales of all kinds…. Read More ›
The Edwin Morgan Papers: launch of the Selected Letters
Special Collections recently celebrated the publication of Edwin Morgan, The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence 1950-2010 (Carcanet Press). The fascinating collection of letters in the book, written by Scotland’s former National Poet to other writers, editors, publishers, artists, University colleagues and… Read More ›