Biography of Morgan

Morgan’s first job, after studying Mediaeval poetry, was in London with Camera Press as a picture researcher. She also worked in another job backstage at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket in the evenings and on Saturdays.

After two years working she went abroad. She spent time in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Egypt and Australia. She travelled and worked for around 10 years, on and off, doing various jobs to survive – she was a Governess in Crete, she worked in bars, in a restaurant kitchen, and in a small theatre in Australia.

In 1989 she started working for the Telegraph out at Canary Wharf, writing obituaries. Obituaries are written in advance and at that time the obituaries were kept in filing cabinets in what was known as ‘The Morgue.’ Then in the mid-90s she worked for the BBC in post-production work.

She moved to Peasmarsh, and then to Rye Harbour, after meeting her husband, Peter. She and Peter opened the Avocet Gallery in Rye Harbour in 2010. They still run the gallery but no longer run the tea room there.

Morgan has written/edited three books for the Rye Nature Reserve. The Shingle Shore (2017). New Ways of Looking, (2021) an anthology of poems from the Rye Harbour poetry group. Seaside Flowers of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve (2022). These are all fund-raising books to raise money for the Reserve.

In 2023 Morgan will be working for Sussex Wildlife Trust on a project called The Lost Words for Rye Harbour. She will be running events to re-engage people with the natural world – writing workshops, treasure hunts, poetry trails etc. “People won’t protect places unless they love them.”

She has always been interested in the natural world. “It is fundamental to who I am.”

 

 

 

 

 

In 2023 Morgan will be working for Sussex Wildlife Trust on a project called The Lost Words for Rye Harbour. She will be running events to re-engage people with the natural world – writing workshops, treasure hunts, poetry trails etc. “People won’t protect places unless they love them.”

 

She has always been interested in the natural world. “It is fundamental to who I am.”

 

 

“I think I’ve had a very charmed life…I’ve had a lot of luck …I haven’t had to look for work, people have offered me work…I don’t think I’ve had difficulties…maybe in meetings as a woman one of the things I have found challenging …is that you can be in a room full of men, you’ll say something and none one reacts to it then one of the men will say exactly the same thing and everybody says what a good idea…that used to drive me crazy…and the other thing being expected to make tea for people in a meeting where they were all men or they’d say, is someone going to take notes looking at me…”

“I always wanted to write and I’m proud of the fact that I’ve made most of my living writing”

 

In 2023 Morgan will be working for Sussex Wildlife Trust called ‘The Lost Words for Rye Harbour’ for fourteen months she will be running events to re-engage people with the natural world – writing workshops, chanting, treasure hunts, poetry trails etc. “People won’t protect places unless they love them.”

She has always been interested in the natural world. “It is fundamental to who I am.”

 

“Get your own pension, sort your own money out…I wish someone had advised me when young to get a pension…”

Audio of interview with Morgan