Monday, September 1, 2008

National poet scoops book award - BBC News


The poet Edwin Lewis Henry Morgan have won the Sundial Scots Humanistic Discipline Council Book of the Year awarding for his up-to-the-minute aggregation of poetry.


The author and comic Rory Bremner presented Professor Lewis Henry Morgan with the £25,000 awarding at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose on Wednesday.


The 87-year-old is Scotland's first Makar, or national poet.


His collection, A Book of Lives, covers issues ranging from the warfare on panic to the Scots Parliament's opening.

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