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Episode 3 - Track List
Prologue by Eileen Farrelly
Still Life, Second Life, After Life by Samuel Tongue
Can We Go Down by Katie Veitch
Washerwoman by Lesley Capitanchik
Green Plannet by Glenna Jones
Mr David Kennedy, Aged Twenty by Gaar Adams
Amoeba in Motion by Beag Horn
Yellow is the Brightest Colour by Lucy Cash
Portraits of Lydia Lopokova by Estelle Price
Two Heads Are Better Than One by Ellen MacAskill
Space Coral 1 & 2 by Scott Norval
Terraforming by Gillian Dawson
W.S. Graham: 29th September 1954 by William Bonar
To An Eddie by R.A. Davis
Europe After The Rain by Kate Lynch
Blind by Edwin Morgan (Read by Nuala Watt)
The Blind Poem by Nuala Watt
The Opposite Page by Eleanor Capaldi
Thought end of world had come by Laura Bissell
There Are 6 Queer Vitalities And Scrapbooking Is One Of Them by K. Patrick
Climate Conversation by Lesley Morrison
Peter is Going For a Walk by Andrés Ordorica
Sanndabhaig by Neil Thomson
Wifi Passwords for his Typewriter by Beth Cochrane
Book 1: 1931-53 by Greg Thomas
Damn Hand by J L Williams
‘Is it true we come alive not once but many times’ by Russell Jones
Accident on West Preston Street by Jane Aldous
Scrappy Questions by Michael Black
Let’s Be Kind About The Bird by Tessa Berring & Kathrine Sowerby
Nebula in Andromeda and Eccentric Orbit by Maria Sledmere
Translating by Machine by NT Smith
A Tree by Lizzie Eldridge
Black and White Pictures of Statues by Sarah Dolan
Asciinaut &c. by Ian Macartney
We Went in Search by Shehzar Doja
Campsie Hills snow dusted by Finola Scott
We are sitting by a river in Pollock park in Glasgow. Can you hear the birds, I saw a duck over there a minute ago. It’s a hot day, the sun is out but we are under a tree. We’re going to do a book launch.
We have invited, 40 poets to come along and do a wee reading by this stream, it’s not a live stream, this stream is pre-recorded!
This online podcast book launch is part of the Edwin Morgan Centenary. we were asked by the Edwin Morgan Foundation to make a book of writing inspired by Edwin Morgan, and specifically, his scrap books.
Edwin Morgan is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate and the 27th of April would have been his hundredth birthday.
Before he published his first collection of poetry, Edwin Morgan made a series of visually arresting, playful, dynamic scrapbooks. A queer visual diary, a catalogue of images, and a surreal bricolage, the scrapbooks were a resource and a testing ground as Morgan developed his distinctively experimental and anti-orthodox poetics.
Speculative Books have teamed up with The Edwin Morgan Foundation and Glasgow University to bring you The Centenary Collection, a collection inspired by those scrap books.
Colin Herd held work shops around the scrap books and was the editor for the collection.
The book is available now! You can buy it from SpeculativeBooks.net
Thank you to all the contributors, thank you to the Edwin Morgan Foundation for contacting us, thank you to Colin Herd for putting together such an excellent collection.
And Thank you to Edwin Morgan - The Original Glasgow Poet Laureate. Happy birthday!
