Landscape of Dreams

<p>Born in London Margaret Fensom migrated to Adelaide by steamship in 1947 as a small child. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1967 and with a Masters in Creative Writing in 1999. She lives in Norwood and has two adult daughters and five grandchildren. She is currently studying theology part time at St Barnabas’ Theological College.</p><p>Margaret has published poems short stories and articles in anthologies and journals and is part-author with Steve Brock and Murray Alfredson of <em>Friendly Street New Poets</em> 12 (2007). <em>Trains</em> the CD of her travels mainly by train in the UK and Europe in 1996 was beta published by L@R Hartley Publishers in 2008.</p><p>Her short story ‘Irish Millennium’ was a runner up in the Wirra Wirra Vineyards (South Australia) Short Story Competition and published in their anthology <em>Party Walls</em> (2003). Her poems ‘Afterwards’ and ‘Fireworks’ won her equal first prize in the 2003 SA International Women’s Day Poetry Competition. They were subsequently published in <em>Friendly Street New Poets</em> 12 and in <em>Multicultural Life.</em> ‘Afterwards’ was published in <em>Travelling: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry</em> (Lulu Press) and was highly commended in the Tom Howard Poetry Contest.</p><p>This is Margaret’s first full-length collection of poetry.</p><p> </p>