Edwin Morgan Second Life commission

A commission with Luke Pell to create a new work in response to the legacy of the first Scottish poet Laureate - Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) - in his centenary year. https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/08/27/the-second-life-grants-stage-2-announcement/

The new work we’re making is: Yellow Touching Blue.

In Morgan’s body of work we find resonance in his way of moving across forms and as artists who approach the world choreographically we crave for the ways in which poetry and dance are ‘languages’ that push at the limits of their forms. We’re curious about a radical poetics to be found by working with and between poetry and dance.

A poetics that refuses any singular position embracing playfulness to cultivate greater spaces of compassion for complex conversation, for thinking deeply-and-lightly, for caring harder, through - what we describe as – a practice of quiet queerings.

Yellow – a contrary colour, of: piss & cowardice, nicotine hair; sunlight, gorse & hope.

Brightest colour in the spectrum - for which the eye has no receptors.

We celebrate the space his words make for refuge and resistance; poetry as a place to think – well. To rest, play and dwell. To make space for comfort with complexity whilst saying to a reader, “this work wants to be read, be held and heard, intimately, by you.”