MORGAN, Edwin

A Glasgow academic, Morgan has produced, along with scholarship, several deviant poems that rank among the best of the era. Opening the Cage is a sonnet based upon fourteen variations of the fourteen words in John Cage's I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry. The Chaffinch Map of Scotland uses a few typically Scottish words to represent the shape of his native land. Pomander uses words that sound like the title word to...