Edwin Morgan Twenties: Take Heart

Introduced by Ali Smith, the title of this group of poems about people is taken from Morgan's poem Pelagius , the theologian who is a kind of alter ego. Morgan has the ability to enter into so many lives: the blind hunchback of In the Snack-bar , Jesus's judge in Pilate at Fortingall , the Polish juggler and acrobat Cinquevalli The Mummy . '