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Stored in Finlay box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This edition also includes about 50 uncollected and unpublished poems and others written for Morgan's 70th birthday celebration.Internet: Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow in 1920, first starting to write while at Glasgow High School. He studied English at Glasgow University, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, during which he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returned to University after the War and graduated in 1947. From 1947-1980 he taught English at Glasgow University, becoming Professor of English in 1975. During this time time he produced a major body of poetry and critical essays. He also wrote plays, libretti, and several works of translation. He travelled widely after the 1950s and translated poetry from many languages, particularly Russian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and French. In the 1960s he experimented with concrete poetry and also championed Beat Poetry. His translations included Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de...

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This poem appeared in Ian Hamilton Finlay's Fishsheet No.1 (1963). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology includes a poem by Edwin Morgan that Houedard retyped, 'Dogs Round A Tree.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each of the six poems uses a single line (e.g., I am the resurrection and the life, and Il faut etre absolument moderne). A varying number of letters in different positions in the line are eliminated to create a spatial, incomprehensible, letter picture-like appearance. The complete line is printed at the bottom of the poem. Morgen calls the texts "emergent poems" and notes that they are taken from St. John, Burns, Brecht, Rimbaud, Dante, and the Communist Manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of a mini-anthology of Cobbing's works including the cut-up technique which constituted his earliest experimental efforts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Series is edited by Alec Finlay. The poems mainly consist of words in Spanish and a Scottish dialect whose meaning has been altered by insertion of one to three letters in small typeface within words printed with a large typeface, e.g., PEnSAR, PaiENSE, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This pamphlet served as the preliiminary version of the work with the same title (1967) published by Brian Lane for his Project 67, Gallery Number Ten seriess. It was designated as No.127 in Rogers amd Cutts' book, "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Workks 1966-99." The latter consisited of 30 newspaper poems that were printed in letterpress and lithograph. The poems printed on the pages are clippings of a sentence or fragments of a sentence from newspaper articles and given a title by Morgan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.