Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the
focus and refocus of sequences, the wily relocation of words in concrete
poems, the weird rhythms of sound poems. His transforming imagination is
democratic, generous and inclusive. Even the sonnet form becomes a new
experiment for a poet of questing and anarchic vision, unwilling to rest
on rules.
'More than the work of most poets, ' writes lain 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, Themes on
a Variation, and some fifty uncollected poems from 1939 to 1982.