Introduction: Edwin Morgan's Prose
A: Local Journalism
A1. 'Byron: Poet or Hero?' (1958)
A2. 'Poetry in rock 'n roll sends me, says Edwin Morgan' (1961)
A3. 'An Egg-Head - But He Rode and Fought with the Wild Cossacks' (1961)
A4. 'Revolution and the Poet' (1965)
A5. 'Working one's passage on the ship of death, with an anarchist at the wheel' (1989)
A6. 'Border lines: English blind spots about Scottish writing' (2005)
B: Comparative Readings
B1. The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid (1962)
B2. Jean Genet: 'A Legend, To Be Legible' (1962)
B3. Close Reading and Closed Poems II: The Poets (1964)
B4. 'Signs and Wonders' (1965)
B5. Concrete Poetry (1968)
B6. The Poetry of the City (1996)
C: Translating
C1. Translation (1956)
C2. A note to the translation of Mayakovsky's 'Fiddle-Ma-Fidgin' (1962)
C3. 'The Young Russians' (1963)
C4. 'Japanese Poetry' (1964)
C5. 'Siberian Dam and Achilles Heart' (1967)
C6. 'Armenian Poetry' (1980)
C7. 'Be-Imaged Languages' (1989)
C8. The Third Tiger: The Translator as Creative Communicator (1992)
C9. Translation: An Interview with Marco Fazzini (1996)
D: Lecturing
D1. Provenance and Problematics of 'Sublime and Alarming Images' in Poetry (1977)
D2. Language, Poetry, and Language Poetry (1989)
D3. Kelpies, Nasturtiums, Polyhedrons, Mammuks, and Liripoops (1992)
D4. Long Poems - But How Long? (1995)
E: Performing
E1. That Uncertain Feeling (1958)
E2. Whither Poetry? (1960)
E3. 'Armstrong's Last Goodnight' (1964)
E4. 'Brechtian Rarity at Glasgow' (1967)
E5. 'Outstanding scenes in Brecht production' (1967)
E6. Introduction to New English Dramatists (1970)
E7. The Cowardly Bandits (Fumi Yamadachi) (2002)
F: Book Reviewing
F1. Graham's Threshold (1950)
F2. 'Caveman' (1966)
F3. 'Mailer Speaking for Himself' (1969)
F4. 'On Hugh MacDiarmid's Complete Poems 1920-1976' (1981)
F5. 'Roy Fisher' (1981)
F6. 'Tom Leonard' (1995)
F7. 'The Jagged Crystal' (1998)
G: Beginning and Ending
G1. Foreword: Alphabetical & Letter Poems: A Chrestomathy (1978)
G2. Glasgow: The Changing Face, 1958-68 (1984)
G3. Afterword: The Challenge of Weoeres (1988)
G4. Sandor Weoeres: Obituary (1989)
G5. Foreword: The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry (1996)
G6. Introduction: And Thus Will I Freely Sing: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Writing from Scotland (1989)
H: Being Himself
H1. Transgression in Glasgow: A poet coming to terms (1997)
H2. A Roof of Fireflies (1998)
Editorial Principles and Endnotes