Tag Archive | "Edwin Morgan"

Liz Lochhead discusses Metaphrog

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead was on Scottish Television’s The Hour discussing Metaphrog’s delightful comics adaptation of her friend, the great Edwin Morgan’s sci-fi poem The First Men on Mercury, which the Glasgow duo adapted for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies for National Poetry Day earlier this month (see here to enjoy the [...]

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The First Men on Mercury

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Happy National Poetry Day to you all! As I mentioned the other week the Association for Scottish Literary Studies has decided to mark this year’s UK National Poetry Day by asking Glasgow’s delightful Metaphrog to adapt The First Men on Mercury, a science fiction themed poem from the man that I (and a lot of [...]

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Comics, science fiction and poetry

Friday, September 25, 2009

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In the UK the 8th of October will be National Poetry Day, an day to encourage people to read or listen to some wonderful verse. Its not always easy, even with heavy readers; too many people say “I don’t like poetry”, which always seems odd to me to be so dismissive – I ask them [...]

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