Edwin Morgan is a Scottish poet. He served as Glasgow's first poet laureate from 1999–2002. In February 2004 he was appointed Scots Makar, in effect poet laureate for Scotland. His Collected Poems was published in 1990, and Collected Translations in 1996. In 1997 he received the Hungarian Order of Merit for his translations of Hungarian poetry.

Edwin Morgan's poetry is published by Carcanet and Mariscat Press.

Edwin Morgan's website is here.

His poem written for the opening of the Scottish parliament in 2004 is here.

A celebration of Edwin Morgan by his city on his 85th birthday is here.

openDemocracy previously published two of Edwin Morgan's poems – "An Iraqi student" and "The Computer's First Christmas Card" – by kind permission of his publishers Carcanet. After a certain period, these were – as Trio will be - returned to the copyright holder.

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A seasonal, life-affirming moment in eternity recalled in the gleam of Edwin Morgan's eye; in his home city, Glasgow, where else?

openDemocracy presents poetry from “At the end of the broken bridge: XXV Hungarian Poems”, a special anthology published by Carcanet and the Scottish Poetry Library featuring poems in the original Hungarian and in new translations from leading Scottish poets.