Publisher's Synopsis
With Sweeping out the Dark Carcanet celebrates twenty one years of publishing Edwin Morgan's poems, prose and translations. Morgan's work, with Scottish and European perspectives, is both sophisticated and popular. As poet, essayist and translator he is well known to readers in Scotland and throughout the English-speaking world.
The work in this book, his first major volume since Collected Poems (1990) which marked his seventieth birthday, shows him to be as inventive and engaging-as engaged-as ever. The questions we ask today-where are we? where are we going?-the political changes of recent years, problems of urban violence and squalor, the re-awakening of community involvement, all find a place. The book also includes translations of Claudian, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Montale, Pushkin, Blok, Mayakovsky, Jozsef and Aigi.
