an attractive energy, openness and the conviction that nothing was off-limits for poetry to address. His verse concerned such topics as meetings with aliens and spaceships, but could also be about a story from that day's newspaper or an encounter with reality in a Glasgow street. His collection The Second Life (1968) covered a fairly typical thematic range: successive poems dealt with Ernest Hemingway; Marilyn Monroe; Edith Piaf; the domes of St Sophia in Istanbul; a white rhinoceros; a wolf; an Aberdeen train; and the opening of the Forth Road Bridge.
The forms he used were likewise eclectic--ranging from substantial sonnet sequences to experiments with concrete poetry. He was flexible, too, with language.
from Telegraph: Edwin Morgan
also The Scotsman: 'Edwin Morgan was poetry's true son and blessed by her'
also The Herald: Makar Morgan, brightest star in our sky
also Deadline Scotland: Stellar tributes for a literary legend, Edwin Morgan, 90
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