A Book of Lives

Description

No wonder Edwin Morgan was Scotland's bestloved poet. His poems teem with lives and loves and are marked by an unusual love of the present and the future. He finds forms for themes and ideas just out of reach. In this collection poems both profound and witty are to be found: occasional verse that transcends its occasion, explorations of the human condition conducted with a virtuosic lightness of touch. A Book of Lives draws together the themes that inform his poetic world. The largest vistas of human history, from twenty billion years BC to 9/11 and the 'war on terror'; Scotland from Bannockbu.;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.