The mile-high buildings flashed, flushed, greyed, went dark,
greyed, flushed, flashed, chameleons under flak
of cloud and sun…
—Edwin Morgan, “Clydegrad”
CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020
Today, 3 September, is Skyscraper Day
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“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood”
Concrete Poetry & the Glasgow High Rises: Greg Thomas looks at how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan
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In 1964, Edwin Morgan wrote a concrete poem in homage to the nineteenth-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a bridge-shaped graphic verse probably intended to mimic Brunel’s design for the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The piece was created for a special, Brunel-themed issue of the little magazine Link, an important forum for the early circulation of concrete […]
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