This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the
first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry
from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his
death at the age of ninety. All his different voices speak here -
animals, inanimate objects, dramatic monologues by people, (famous
people, unknown people and imaginary people) - in a multitude of forms
and styles - sonnets, science fiction, concrete, sound, his own invented
stanzas - together with his evocations of place, especially his home
city of Glasgow, and a wide selection of his deservedly famous love
poems. They all illustrate his incurable curiosity and a kind of
relentless optimism for humanity.