Biography
Robert Rushforth Morley grew up in St Mawgan, Cornwall. He was educated at Blundell's School and at the University of Kent. He has been teaching EFL for thirty-five years, mostly in Italy, but also in the Crimea, Moscow, Hong Kong and Cairo. Since 1990 he has been teaching at the University of Pavia. He currently lives in a well-appointed garret somewhere in the Po Valley, with a charming companion and a very small dog.
Since studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 1996/7, he has published poetry in a variety of magazines, and at summer's end he can be found at the Poetry on the Lake festival at Orta, in northern Italy. He believes that the only true holidays are to lose oneself in a good book or on a long walk.
You're reading the musings of Rushforth Morley, teacher, novelist and poet - born in Cornwall, but genetically a Yorkshireman ("You can tell a Yorkshireman - but you can't tell him much!"), and currently surviving in the badlands of northern Italy..