Margaret's writing is informed by her experiences of teaching science and pastoral care, of local preaching and elder training, and of living life as a daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. She has recently initiated a 'Martha/Mary Group' in her local Anglican church in Tunbridge Wells, UK, which seeks to help women integrate the spiritual into their lives.

 

During a period of enforced rest after serious illness, she meditated on her garden and wrote many poems comparing the human condition to the changing seasons in nature.

 

Margaret wonders if her poetry is 'too secular for the religious and too religious for the secular.'