Robin Morrison

Robin Morrison has now retired and lives in Laleham, England, having moved from Wales, where he was the Church and Society Officer for the Church in Wales, a Governor of a University and a Free School, on the Board of Artes Mundi and, at one time, Chair of the Institute of Directors in South Wales. For some years he organised, with the Muslim Council of Wales, a series of joint consultations on contemporary challenges and ran a group called "Telos", looking at the spirituality of organisations. In Wales, he was also chair of his local archery club, captain of a table tennis team and played competitive croquet matches. His major work of non-fiction is a trilogy of books on cosmology, quantum and evolution called "Love's Energy", which took 12 years to write, including research visits to CERN. It challenges a creationist view in any religion, and offers an alternative way of thinking about God as creator or source in a universe that "makes itself". His novels are either gentle spy stories in international settings - he spent a year studying in Eastern Europe and covered international work in his last post - or vehicles for exploring philosophical, literary, and spiritual ideas, for example that of Time in "The Recreant" and "Chloe's Time"; Frankenstein's Prometheus in "Myfanwy" set around Lake Geneva; gender relationships in "The Virtue of Vulnerability"; alternative ways of addressing fundamentalist Islam in "The Secret Trial", "The Falling Shroud", and "Going Back" (all three about Jack a soldier captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan who then works for the CIA in Washington); the way ideas can change tense political situations where difference leads to division, with homage to S.T. Coleridge in "One Leg is Both the Same". In "The Lawn in the Mud", a WW1 soldier recovers at Bowood House in England and then meets Alice, travelling with her to a post Versailles Treaty Germany, attempting to heal some wounds. In "Cobwebs", Harry is sent to Beirut to stop an assasination but meets Julie, an archaeologist who shares his interest in art, and then a leader of Hezbollah, all the time trying to work out who Julie really is. In the stand alone sequel, "The Spider" he travels to Boston to set up a new organisation addressing terrorism related issues in a different way. His book of collected poems, 1970-2015, is called "Finding a Way". He has also written plays and a series of Late Night Meditations - all available on Amazon.