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X-WR-CALNAME:Edinburgh · literary · Thursday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Home in Space: Selected Concrete\, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan DTSTART:20260924T173000Z DTEND:20260924T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215631Z UID:10003164-1790274600-1790280000@www.fruitmarket.co.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:24.09.26. 6.30–8pm \nAn evening to discover and celebrate th e incredible body of visual and sound poetry by Edwin Morgan\, much of whi ch is rarely seen and will now be available in this significant new volume from Reaktion Books. This new selection reveals Edwin Morgan’s groundbr eaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice. With editors Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone\, poets Iona Lee and Dan Power\, and Morga n’s publisher\, bibliographer and friend\, Hamish Whyte. \nEdwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet\, a bold\, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness\, politics and post-war l ife. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond tradit ional verse. This book brings together\, for the first time\, the full ran ge of his visual and sound poetry – from vibrant poster poems and surrea list collages to concrete poetry\, cut-ups and sonic permutations. It reve als Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art\, linking language\, image and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to ques tions of identity\, ecology and empire\, Morgan’s work remains as urgent and inventive as ever – a celebration of poetic form at its most expans ive and alive. \n––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––– \nGreg Thomas is a writer\, cri tic\, poet and artist based in Glasgow\, Scotland. He is the author of Bor der Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetries\, text art and multimedia art. \nJulie Johnstone is an artist\, curator\, editor and publisher based in Edinburgh\, Scotland. She works primarily in the artists’ book form and her bookworks are in numerous national collections. She was previously Hea d Librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive held there. www.juliejohnstone.com \nHamish Whyte wa s born in 1947 near Glasgow where he lived before moving to Edinburgh in 2 004. A former librarian and Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literatur e at the University of Glasgow. Shoestring Press has published five collec tions\, the latest being A Spell of Watching: New & Selected Poems (2024 ). HappenStance published a memoir\, Morgan and Me\, in 2020 and he edit ed Edwin Morgan: Centenary Selected Poems (2020) for Carcanet Press. For many years he was Edwin Morgan’s Scottish publisher\, at the award-winn ing Mariscat Press. He has also compiled a bibliography of Morgan’s work . \nIona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose work encompasses poetry\, mu sic\, visual art\, and live performance. She has read her work in venues a nd on festival stages all over the UK and Europe\, from Shetland to Cornwa ll\, Paris to Berlin\, dive bars to the Royal Albert Hall. Her debut colle ction\, Anamnesis (Polygon\, 2023) won the Somerset Maugham Award\, and in 2024 she published What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability (Tri ckhouse Press)  ̶  a collection of visual and concrete poetry created t hrough interactions with the geolocation software what3words. Iona’s wor k is concerned with themes of magic\, media\, art and artifice\, memory an d other hauntings. \nDan Power was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2024. His poems appear in Poetry London\, Poetry Ireland Review \, Gutter\, Magma\, Wet Grain\, and more. Dan is the founding editor of Tr ickhouse Press\, a publisher specialising in visual poetry\, and holds a P hD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. His film poems have been exhibited at the Off-Page Vispo exhibition in 2025\, Beaconsfield Gallery in London\, and at StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. Da n can be found on Instagram @therealdanpower\, or at danpower.xyz. \nAdva nced reviews: \nEdwin Morgan’s is the kind of poetry I want. A Home in Space is a multiverse chock full of concrete word-patterning\, sound-ups a nd cut-ups\, galaxies and constellations\, collages\, overlays\, typograph ic arrays\, acoustic riffs\, lettrist elations and noncesensical confabula tions\, graphic designs\, ur-computer inventions\, and iconoclastic ads an d icons. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone’s detailed\, historically infor mative\, and discerning introduction sets the stage for Morgan’s verbo-v isual-vocal – patalexical! polychromatic! – lollapalooza of a book.\nC harles Bernstein\, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Compa rative Literature\, University of Pennsylvania \nThis eagerly awaited stud y is a veritable triumph. Greg Thomas’s fine introduction ranges seamles sly over the intricate details of Morgan’s multifaceted career as a poet . The decision to reproduce many of the poetic texts in the versions that Morgan himself devised enhances the book’s historical importance.\nSteph en Bann\, Emeritus Professor of History of Art\, University of Bristol\, a nd editor of Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology (1967) \nA Home i n Space is a fantastic presentation of the extensive work of the Scottish visual/concrete poet Edwin Morgan. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone have cr eated an artfully curated volume that showcases the many dimensions of Mor gan’s practice – from his early scrapbooks through his explorations of typewriter\, graphic\, visual poetics in various media. Thomas’s initia l essay situates Morgan’s work in the context of twentieth-century liter ary activity\, making the case once and for all that visual poetry was a c entral – rather than marginal – component of modern aesthetics. For th ose unfamiliar with the poet\, this is a terrific introduction and\, for t hose already fans\, the book is an opportunity to appreciate the range and variety of Morgan’s thought and expression. So much of his work is scat tered and distributed in different venues and repositories and circulated in niche networks that the sheer effort of locating\, selecting and collat ing this collection is admirable. It’s such a pleasure to see the combin ation of solid research and beautifully designed publication honouring Mor gan’s creative spirit.\nJohanna Drucker\, author of Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture (2025) and Inventing the Alphabet (2022) \ nThis is a marvellous book\, revealing for the first time the full range o f generous wit with which Edwin Morgan wrote radical new poetries. Here\, indeed\, are oodles of thrillingly self-estranging technical experiment an d much avant-garde mischief.\nDrew Milne\, Judith E. Wilson Professor of P oetics\, University of Cambridge\, and author of In Darkest Capital: Colle cted Poems LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215631Z URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-of-a-home-in-space/?ut m_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Fruitmarket X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Book Creative Writing DTSTART:20260924T180000Z DTEND:20260924T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T003152Z UID:10001462-1790276400-1790283600@lgbthealth.org.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Delivered in partnership with Open Book Reading\, we’ll be reading stories and poems aloud and using them to create our own writing i n a gentle\, guided session with Lead Reader\, Jess Orr. \n  \nNo experie nce required! Just a willingness to have a go in a safe and affirmative se tting. \n  \nFirst time? Find out what to expect from a session on this guide. 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