I have used as template Edwin Morgan’s own choice of his poems for the New Selected Poems which Carcanet published in 2000. In editing that and adding later poems, I have tried to provide a selection as widely representative as possible from the huge range of his work, from his first book in 1952 to his last in 2010.

I should like to thank most warmly David Kinloch, James McGonigal, Robyn Marsack and Pip Osmond for their extremely useful assistance in the compilation of this volume.

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