The Midnight Letterbox Selected Correspondence, 1950–2010

Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow in 1920. He became lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow, from which he retired as Professor in 1980. He was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000. In June 2001 he received the Weidenfeld Prize for Translation for Phaedra. In 2004 Edwin Morgan was appointed Scotland’s Makar, or Poet Laureate. He died in 2010. James McGonigal studied English at the University of Glasgow in the 1960s. Edwin Morgan was then his research supervisor in the 1970s. A school teacher and latterly Professor of English in Education, he has published in both disciplines. He is one of Edwin Morgan’s literary executors, and his Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan (2010, 2012) won a Scottish Saltire award. John Coyle is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has previously edited Ford Madox Ford’s It Was the Nightingale and Provence for Carcanet Press.