About Eddie Linden
Edward Sean Linden (born John Edward Glackin; 5 May 1935 – 19 November 2023) was a Scottish-Irish poet, literary magazine editor, and political activist. From 1969 to 2002, he published and edited the poetry magazine Aquarius, which The Irish Post said made him "one of the leading figures on the international poetry scene". The journal was significant in the growth of British, Irish, and international poets and has been described as Linden's "crowning gift to literature—the nurturing and developing of poetic talent". == Early life == Linden was born John Edward Glackin in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, on 5 May 1935, the illegitimate child of Irish parents Elizabeth Glackin and Joseph Watters. Linden never knew his birth father. His name was changed to Edward Sean Linden upon being adopted by Mary Glenn and coal miner Eddie Linden, whom he came to regard as his true parents; his adoptive father was actually related to Elizabeth by marriage. Linden was raised Roman Catholic in Bellshill. Mary died in 1944 and Eddie married a Presbyterian woman who disliked the young Linden. She failed to have him put in an asylum, so instead had him sent to an orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity. He was educated at Holy Family school in Mossend and St Patrick's school in New Stevenston.
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