Edwin Morgan 1920 – 2010
August 19, 2010
We are all immensely saddened by the news of Edwin Morgan’s death this morning. Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, paid tribute:
“A great, generous, gentle genius has gone. He was poetry’s true son and blessed by her. He is quite simply irreplaceable. I’m certain that everyone who performs or attends at the Edinburgh International Book Festival will be thinking of him with love and gratitude.”
August 19, 2010 at 11:45 am
So sad he’s gone but he’s blessed us and the world with his poetry.
August 19, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Hard news to take in. RIP big fella – you left the world a better and more interesting place than you found it.
August 19, 2010 at 2:08 pm
This is very sad news, but also an occasion to be grateful for his life and his poetry, which gave so much to many.
August 19, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Not just a great poet but a great teacher too. I will never forget his lectures at Glasgow University in the 1970s.
August 19, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Dear Edwin, great poet,
You reminded us that all is present, that things past are not yet passed, and that what is to come is not all fate but for us to make: with poetry, with poetry!
I salute your ubiquity, in tiefer Freundschaft,
Baron Munchausen
August 19, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Edwin Morgan
Rest In Poetry
August 20, 2010 at 3:24 pm
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August 20, 2010 at 5:04 pm
A tall figure who engulfed us all.
August 22, 2010 at 5:55 pm
some measure
their lives by days
and years,
some by coffee spoons
and others by poetry
may your god bless you sir
August 22, 2010 at 7:14 pm
So saddened by the news. His poetry will live on forever. Here’s to a new generation of young people discovering and loving his poetry more than the last.
RIP xx
August 24, 2010 at 12:47 pm
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August 24, 2010 at 1:18 pm
‘Where ever you are you shall be my star’
A great loss to poetry but your gift will last for ever.