Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of
these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But
equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of
poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of
subjects, social, psychological, philosophical. Some of the poems have
been set to music, both jazz and classical. In many ways it is a book of
voices and observation, a book of accessible storytelling.