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Our future is about warm welcomes not closed minds

EDWIN Morgan was Scotland's first Makar.

He died only two years ago, but have you tried to buy a volume of his poetry in Edinburgh? I attempted it last week; here's how I got on.

I was in the Museum of Scotland which has a small book section, so I looked there. No joy. Further down the street I went into the National Library of Scotland. Its shop had a biography of Morgan but not his work. Finally I tried a big branch of Waterstones. There I found one slim copy of his translation of Beowulf. There was no anthology of his verse.

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