Sandstone Press

Edwin Morgan dies in Glasgow

Posted by RLD on 19th August 2010

It is with great sadness that Sandstone Press echoes the news of Edwin Morgan’s death at his Care Home in Glasgow, the city which he loved and celebrated throughout his long and creative life. We understand from the poet’s close friend and biographer, James McGonigal, that Edwin Morgan’s health had recently taken a downturn. Our thoughts are with James and his own family, and with Edwin Morgan’s many colleagues and close friends in the Arts. More will follow through the national and international news systems and readers’ attention is directed to those media now.

Sandstone Press Managing Director Robert Davidson states: ‘The whole world will grieve for Scotland’s leading makar today but for the City of Glasgow, on the day it bids farewell to another of its great sons, Jimmy Reid, it will be a day of especial sorrow. Edwin Morgan and Jimmy Reid took the best of this great city’s intellect, feeling and fighting spirit into the world and made their marks for us all.’
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The above statement was posted on Thursday 19th August 2010, the day of Edwin Morgan’s death, and has since been widely quoted in other reportage. In these articles Sandstone Press has frequently been referred to as ‘his publisher’, apparently Edwin Morgan’s. Sandstone Press would like to make it clear that this company is not a publisher of Edwin Morgan’s work except in so far as it will be quoted in the forthcoming Beyond the Last Dragon by James McGonigal. For decades the poet’s work has been published by Mariscat in Scotland and by Carcanet. Respectively Hamish Whyte and Michael Schmidt of these companies have served the poet and his work brilliantly well.
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