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A Small Slice of Private Life

Jenny Morgan

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For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...

Above the Cloudline

Jenny Morgan

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We’re sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutes’ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because ...

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A Glimpse of Nablus

Jenny Morgan

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I probably won’t live long enough to bring into being a film I’ve thought about making in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from the time the Women’s Press sent a preview copy of Palestinian poet ...

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More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates

Jenny Morgan

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The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here.   I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, ...

ON THE TB WARD: A few stories of lungs

Jenny Morgan

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When I was being treated for TB in the old St Mary’s Hospital on Harrow Road in London – this was in 1972, a long time ago – the nurses used to give the patients a ...