Publisher's Synopsis
To catch 'in full sight' is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he
achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of
sequences, in the witty reification of words in concrete poems, in the
weird rhythms of sound poems. He hears and transcribes voices; his
transforming imagination is democratic, generous and inclusive. Experiment
is joyful and enabling: even the sonnet form remains an experiment for the
poet questing for vision and unwilling to rest on rules. 'More than the
work of most poets,' writes Iain Crichton Smith, Morgan's poetry 'welcomes
the twentieth century, with its gadgets, its paradoxes, graffiti, new
languages, torn advertisements, unconscious jokes, voyages'
This volume includes Poems of Thirty Years (1982) and Themes on a
Variation (1988), together with some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to
1982.
