A Book of Lives 9781847778239, 9781847778246, 1847778232

No wonder Edwin Morgan was Scotland's bestloved poet. His poems teem with lives and loves and are marked by an unus

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A Book of Lives
 9781847778239, 9781847778246, 1847778232

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004
Acknowledge the Unacknowledged Legislators!
The Cost of Pearls
Lines for Wallace
The Battle of Bannockburn
James IV To his Treasurer
Retrieving & Renewing
Planet Wave
Valentine Weather
Three Songs
Old Gorbals
1955 --
A Recollection
My First Octopus
Boethius
Charles V
Oscar Wilde
Hirohito
New Times
Gorgo and Beau
Questions I
Questions II
The Welcome
Brothers and Keepers
The Old Man and E.A.P.
An Old Woman's Birthday. For David Daiches, on his Ninetieth BirthdayA Birthday: for I.H.F.
Wild Cuts (with Hamish Whyte)
Five Paintings
Love and a Life
The War on the War on Terror
Conversation in Palestine
Also by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet
About the Author
Copyright.

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