Edwin Morgan

messages and transformations

Roderick Watson

pp. 170-192

in: Gary Day, Brian Docherty (eds), British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Abstract

I think people like to have a thematic centre, like to know where they are. They feel more comfortable if they know what is central to any poet they’re reading or thinking about. But I would like to defend what I do … I have always had the sense that I should do different things, both in subject and in form … The very fact that one person is responsible for all these poems means that there’s some sort of unity about them.1