Edwin Morgan, Scotland's "national poet"

Scottish poet Edwin Morgan—deemed “poetry’s true son” by Carol Ann Duffy—has died at 90. Morgan was revered for his poetry as well as his poetic translations, critical essays and librettos.

He served as Glasgow's inaugural poet laureate in 2004, and was the recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Read more about his life and work in the Guardian:

Contributor Seamus Heaney wrote that Morgan had "the true poet's ability to convey innocent joy while maintaining the highest seriousness". Visiting him in 2005 to "pay formal homage to Scotland's poet laureate", Heaney said he "recognised the unpretentiousness and shyness" he'd seen in his fellow poet before. "But now I was shy myself in the presence of one who had done such magnificent work as poet and translator, whose mind and hand went together, who cast a warm eye on life and whose achievement shines fuller and steadier as the decades pass," wrote the Irish poet.

The author of more than 60 books, Morgan's 2007 collection A Book of Lives was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize and won the Sundial Scottish Arts Council book of the year award.