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Morgan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Rutherglen. His parents were Presbyterian. He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said. [2] Morgan entered the University of Glasgow in 1937.
Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."
The tradition of neo-Latin poetry reached its fruition with the publication of the anthology of the Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum (1637). This period was marked by the work of female Scottish poets including Elizabeth Melville, whose Ane Godlie Dream (1603) was the first book published by a woman
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]
Bust of Thomas Campbell by Edward Hodges Baily, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London.
Glasgow grew up watching Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy, The Hardy Boys, and Mork and Mindy, among other famous duos from television series, which she cites as inspirations for The Agathas series. [3] She was the coordinator of the University of Minnesota's MFA in Creative Writing program for thirteen years. Before writing her first ...
Glasgow School of Art, where Low studied. Born in Gourock, Bet Low grew up by the Clyde Estuary in poor circumstances, influenced by the stark contrast between Glasgow's industrial areas and the surrounding Scottish countryside. [3] Low married, and later divorced, the painter Tom MacDonald.
Growing up, Pennie competed in Robert Burns poetry recital competitions. When she was furloughed from her work in a restaurant during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Scotland , she began posting a video with a Scots word each day on Twitter [ 6 ] to show the pronunciation and meaning of the word and how to use it in context.