About Edwin Morgan (poet)
Edwin George Morgan was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Makar or National Poet for Scotland. Morgan first expressed his identity as a gay man in Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on his Work and Life (1990). In 2007, Morgan contributed two poems to the compilation Ballads of the Book, for which a range of Scottish writers created poems to be made into songs by Scottish musicians. In his will he left almost £1 million to the Scottish National Party.
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