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Elizabeth Burns

We are all immensely saddened by the news of Edwin Morgan's death this morning. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy pays tribute. Edwin Morgan's funeral will take place on Thursday 26 August at 1.30pm in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow.

SPL Podcasts

Podcast from Edwin Morgan's 90th birthday celebrations in April this year, featuring tributes from friends.

Beautiful mind

The things inside his mind are blurring
and drifting like snow, they are settling
into great heaps, burying whatever lay there.
May there be moments that feel as if they were lifted
from his granddaughter's collage of autumn:

the three pairs of pale gold sycamore wings, perhaps,
with their flying birdshapes echoing one another;
the bend and swoop and line of reddened leaf-stems,
or else the copper beech leaves, so exactly placed,
the white space clear between them, perfect as snow.

Elizabeth Burns

More about Elizabeth in our A - Z of poets

Held by Elizabeth Burns, published by Polygon, will be launched at the
Scottish Poetry Library on Tuesday 7 September at 6.30pm. All welcome.