A Home in Space

Reveals Edwin Morgan's groundbreaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice.

Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland's foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics, and postwar life. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond traditional verse. This book brings together, for the first time, the full range of his visual and sound poetry--from vibrant poster poems and surrealist collages to concrete poetry, cut-ups, and poem-sculptures. It reveals Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art, linking language, image, and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to questions of identity, ecology, and empire, Morgan's work remains as urgent and inventive as ever--a celebration of poetic form at its most expansive and alive.

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is widely recognized as Scotland's foremost national poet. He published twenty-five collections of his own poetry, and became the first Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999 and the inaugural Makar or National Poet of Scotland in 2000. Greg Thomas is a writer, critic, poet, and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetry, text art, and multimedia art. Julie Johnstone is an artist, curator, editor, and publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was previously the head librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive at the Library.