Pete Morgan

Pete Morgan (Born 1939 in Leigh near Wigan, Lancashire) is a British poet, lyricist and TV documentary author and presenter.

Morgan's career as a poet began in the mid-1950s when he was 16 and living alone in London. He entered the British Army and rose to the rank of infantry platoon commander while serving in West Germany but began to question this career choice. By the mid-1960s he had become a pacifist and resigned his commission.

In 1964 he moved to Edinburgh, where he started to publish his poems and to perform recitals in public.

Born a Lancastrian, he returned to the North of England in 1971, though this time to Yorkshire, to live and work in the fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay.

Over the years he has emphasized the oral tradition of poetry and song. It is no surprise therefore that some of his poems have been set to music and have been recorded by such artists as Al Stewart ("My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" on the 1970 "Zero She Flies" album), The McCalmans and most recently The Levellers. (During his 1999 UK Tour, Al Stewart invited Morgan to read the lyrics as he performed the above song in the City Varieties Theatre show at Leeds on the 7th. of November).

Morgan's BBC Television series - 'A Voyage Between Two Seas', first screened in 1983, presented a journey across Northern England via the region's waterways. His subsequent TV programme 'The Grain Run', told the story of the Roman supply route from East Anglia to the Yorkshire town of Aldborough.

His most recent book of poetry is August Light ISBN 1-904614-23-X, published in 2006.

External links

* [http://www.theshed.co.uk/petemorgan.html Pete Morgan at The Shed]
* [http://www.page27.co.uk/page27/al99uk1.htm Page-27 report on 1999 tour]
* [http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/august_light_by_morgan_pete_i016350.aspx Review by Carol Ann Duffy]
* [http://www.pete-morgan.co.uk/background.htm List of Published Works]