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Web Address: www.lrhartley.com/fensom

Submitted Profile: Award-winning poet & author Margaret Fensom was born in London in 1943 and migrated to Adelaide by steamship in 1947 and has since travelled extensively in the UK, Europe and Russia. She is now widowed with two adult daughters and four grandchildren. Fensom completed a BA and an MA (Creative Writing) at the University of Adelaide in 1998 and graduated in 1999. She has also written articles and had short stories for children told on television.

Published work: Trains: A Traveller’s Tale

Published by: L&R Hartley

Illustrated by: Lionel Hartley, PhD PLUS photos by the author.

This is a true story that is "the same but different": a traveller’s tale, but the backpacker is a 53 year-old woman travelling mostly by train. She visits Paris, Wales, Prague and many other places. She is interested in public transport and renewable energy for environmental reasons, and this motivates some (but not all) of her travel. It’s interspersed with poems, the original published and unpublished work of the author, plus a couple of Wordsworth quotations, with ironic comparisons with what is there now. There are photographs too in the form of an interactive 'Photo Album/Slide-show. There is a sequel further along the track.

Publication Date: 2007

Available from: The Author (preferred option) or L&R Hartley Merchandising.

Contact: mdingle@chariot.net.au