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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."
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.
She grew up in Glasgow where her family moved when she was less than one year old. She was married to Simon Powell, the founder of the organisation Poetry Live, who died in October 2009 after an 11 year battle with cancer. [1] [13] Her daughter, Ayesha (whose father is Anil Dharker), is an actress in international films, television and stage. [14]
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]
In 2015 Liz Lochhead was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. [5] Lochhead is only the 11th woman to have been awarded the prize since its inception in 1933, and the eighth Scot. [5] A statue of her face was erected at Edinburgh Park, along with those of other famous Scottish poets. The statue contains engravings of her poems. [41]
The success of his first volume of poems, A Life Drama and other Poems (1853), brought him fame and influential supporters that led to him being appointed Secretary of Edinburgh University in 1854. In Edinburgh, Smith was a near neighbour of the landscape painter Horatio McCulloch, who had also grown up in Glasgow, and the two became firm friends.
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Pennie was one of five Scots commissioned to write a poem for a local Christmas campaign by Lidl about the Daft Days. [12] A recitation of Robert Burns' Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin was shared by the Scottish Poetry Library , [ 13 ] and she performed to over 1,200 people for the University of St Andrews' online Global Burns Night [ 14 ] and at a ...