{"id":4553,"date":"2010-08-20T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:05:12","slug":"edwin-morgan-1920%e2%80%932010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/edwin-morgan-1920%e2%80%932010\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Morgan (1920\u20132010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwin_morgan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4554 lazyload\" title=\"edwin_morgan\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwin_morgan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 224px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 224\/299;\" \/><\/a>Bill Sherman, in a comment to this morning&#8217;s post, informed me that the Scots poet\/makar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Morgan_%28poet%29\"><strong>Edwin Morgan<\/strong><\/a> had passed at 90. You can read a first obit by the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/paulinemclean\/2010\/08\/edwin_morgan_rip.html\">here<\/a>. Bill included the following poem, which I&#8217;ll also reproduce:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My life, as a slant of rain<br \/>\non the grey earth fields<br \/>\nis gathered in thirsty silence, disappears.<br \/>\nI cannot even guess<br \/>\nthe roots, but I feel them sighing<br \/>\nin the stir of the soul I die to.\u00a0 Let this rain<br \/>\nbe on the childeren of my heart,<br \/>\nI have no other ones.<br \/>\nOn the generations,<br \/>\non the packed cells and dreaming shoots,<br \/>\nthe untried hopes, the waiting good<br \/>\nI send this drop to melt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There will no doubt be a fair amount more on Edwin Morgan in the next few days &amp; I&#8217;ll try to add relevant links to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sherman, in a comment to this morning&#8217;s post, informed me that the Scots poet\/makar Edwin Morgan had passed at 90. You can read a first obit by the BBC here. Bill included the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,82,91],"tags":[803],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-passings","category-poetry","tag-edwin-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}