"My Life, Travels and Poetry"

About the Book

My Life, Travels and Poetry" by Susan Mary Robertson is in three parts. The first part is an autobiography of nine chapters. The first two chapters cover her childhood and education in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, where she was born and grew up in the 1950's and 1960's. The next seven chapters are about her adult life, studying, working, and living in London.

The second part "Millennial Travels", covers her travels around the world: Great Britain, Europe, North America, Siberia, China, India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Egypt — including working holidays, youth hosteling, holiday camps, and package holidays.

The third part consists of a hundred poems.

About the Author

Susan Mary Robertson was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1952. She lived there for twenty years with her family in the 1950's and 1960's. She then moved to London where she has lived, studied and worked for over thirty years. She studied pre-clinical medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and then transferred to King's College London where she graduated in biochemistry in 1977. she worked in medical research, computing, book sales, administration and catering in hospitals, holiday camps, and voluntary organizations in great Britain, United States, France, Germany, and Australia.

She trained in information technology, business administration and management, at Hammersmith and West London College, and media practice, arts administration, law and international studies at Birkbeck College and Thames Valley University during the past few years.

She joined the British Labour Party in 1980, the United Nations Association in 2000, Friends of the the Earth in 2003, and has campaigned for nuclear disarmament, peace, development, health, and the environment including work camps, conferences, lobbies of Parliament, and visits to the United Nations in New York and Geneva.