
A Home in Space
Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry
Edwin Morgan(Author)
Reaktion Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2026
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-83639-196-8 (ISBN)
Description
Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland's foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond traditional verse. This book brings together, for the first time, the full range of his visual and sound poetry - from vibrant poster poems and surrealist collages to concrete poetry, cut-ups and poem-sculptures. It reveals Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art, linking language, image and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to questions of identity, ecology and empire, Morgan's work remains as urgent and inventive as ever - a celebration of poetic form at its most expansive and alive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
190 illustrations, 85 in colour
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83639-196-8 (9781836391968)
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Greg Thomas (Anthology Editor)
Greg Thomas is a writer, critic, poet and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetries, text art and multimedia art.
Julie Johnstone (Anthology Editor)
Julie Johnstone is an artist, curator, editor and publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was previously the Head Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive at the Library.
Greg Thomas is a writer, critic, poet and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetries, text art and multimedia art.
Julie Johnstone (Anthology Editor)
Julie Johnstone is an artist, curator, editor and publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was previously the Head Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive at the Library.