"Edwin Morgan was not only our national poet – widely read, studied at school, much loved by fellow authors as well as readers – but our international poet: a marvellous translator from many languages and, equally, translated into many languages. He was a star of the international concrete poetr
his rectorial address was printed in its entirety by the New York Times, which compared it favourably to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln. "From the very depth of my being," Reid declared, "I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human bein
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Edwin Morgan, Scotland's national poet, dies aged 90
Jimmy Reid obituary
