A Book of Lives

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ISBN: 9781857549188 | 185754918X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2007

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Containing poems written by Edwin Morgan during the past six years, this collection looks at human life from a variety of perspectives, encompassing a range of themes, the foremost of which is history. This new work displays the author's characteristic willingness to experiment with a variety of subjects, from the history of cancer to the new Scottish parliament.

For the opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004	p. 9
Acknowledge the unacknowledged legislators!	p. 11
The cost of pearls	p. 13
Lines for Wallace	p. 14
The battle of Bannockburn	p. 16
James IV To his treasurer	p. 21
Retrieving & renewing	p. 22
Planet wave	p. 23
Valentine weather	p. 44
The red coat	p. 45
Knock at the door	p. 45
The good years	p. 46
Old gorbals	p. 47
1955 - a recollection	p. 48
My first octopus	p. 49
Boethius	p. 50
Charles V	p. 52
Oscar Wilde	p. 53
Hirohito	p. 54
New times	p. 55
Gorgo and Beau	p. 56
Questions I	p. 65
Questions II	p. 66
The welcome	p. 67
Brothers and keepers	p. 69
The old man and E.A.P.	p. 72
An old woman's birthday	p. 73
For David Daiches, on his ninetieth birthday	p. 74
A birthday : for I.H.F.	p. 76
Natural philosophy	p. 77
A bird too many	p. 77
Sure of a big surprise	p. 77
A drip too many	p. 77
Soothe and improve	p. 78
A whizz too many	p. 78
Last days	p. 78
A movement too many	p. 78
Salvador Dali : Christ of St. John of the Cross	p. 79
Sir Henry Raeburn : portrait of rev. Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch	p. 79
Rembrandt : man in armour	p. 80
Joan Eardley : flood-tide	p. 80
Avril Paton : windows on the west	p. 81
Love and a life	p. 82
The war on the war on terror	p. 104
Conversation in Palestine	p. 105
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