Writer James McGonigal was one of the last people to visit Morgan, on Wednesday evening. The poet died the next morning aged 90. He had been suffering from pneumonia.
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‘Edwin dreamed lines of poetry until the very end’
Despite the haze of pain-relief drugs for his cancer, through his final days Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s national poet, found comfort knowing he “still had lines of poetry in his head”, according to his biographer.
