Margaret Minney

Writing poetry has been a part of Margaret’s life since she was very young. All writing held her interest. She was a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers SA in the 1970’s, contributing to their “South Australian Scrapbook”, which was published in 1979. It was in about the mid-seventies when Margaret was given the opportunity to write scripts for Humphrey B Bear, and was even invited to observe their recording at the Channel 9 studios, North Adelaide. Later, when Margaret had returned to the workforce as a lawyer (more writing), she wrote poetry earnestly with a group of friends called “Wordweavers”, but she took up further music studies and those studies, together with entertaining the residents in a residential village, and being the pianist with a community orchestra, and accompanying the Ukrainian Choir Berehenya, took all her disposable time. In 2001, Karin, FreeXpresSion’s then In Form Page Host Editor, needed support after a family tragedy, and Margaret slipped between the pages with the emotion and the music of poetry returning to her ears. Margaret’s joys in life include those that have been as wife to her husband John, particularly his local government councillor life, and as mother to their three daughters – notably swimming, Girl Guides and Highland Dancing. Now John and Margaret treasure the chance to watch their four grandsons and one grand daughter, grow into the people they will become. Life holds great beauty, with all its irritations and its travesties , but then, they just need a good poem to ameliorate them.