Robyn Rowland Seven poems Contemporary Irish Poetry Index
Robyn Rowland is an Irish-Australian citizen, visiting Ireland for thirty-four years, where she lives in Connemara. She also visits and works in Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry. Robyn’s poetry appears in national and international journals and in over forty anthologies, including eight editions of The Best Australian Poems. She has read in many countries including, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, India, and Portugal.
Her latest books in 2015 were Line of Drift (Doire Press, Ireland, supported by the Irish Arts Council, and her bi-lingual This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915 (Five Islands Press, Australia and Bilge Kultur Sanat,Turkey) sponsored by the Municipality of Çanakkale. Turkish translations Mehmet Ali Çelikel. Her second book with Doire Press will be out in 2018.
She has been featured on the RTE Poetry Show, Ireland, as well as PoeticA and Earshot in Australia. She was recently filmed reading for the National Irish Poetry Archives, James Joyce Library University College Dublin.
- Robyn’s website can be found at http://robynrowland.com/
- Go to Robyn’s website to purchase Line of Drift http://robynrowland.com/portfolio-view/line-of-drift-2/ and This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915 http://robynrowland.com/portfolio-view/this-intimate-war-gallipolicanakkale-1915/
Reviews and Articles
- The Vulnerability of Individuals in the Face of History: Lisa Gorton launches This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 by Robyn Rowland https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2015/03/24/the-vulnerability-of-individuals-in-the-face-of-history-lisa-gorton-launches-this-intimate-war-gallipolicanakkale-1915-by-robyn-rowland/
- Kevin Higgins reviews Line of Drift in Galway Advertiser http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/79997/book-reviews-robyn-rowland-and-elaine-gaston
- Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, (2015) (Special Issue) Article by Catherine Akça on This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 http://robynrowland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Transnational-Identity-in-Robyn-Rowlands-This-Intimate-War.pdf
- Transnational Literature Vol. 8 no. 2, May 2016, Catherine Akca, Review of This Intimate War: Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/ bitstream/handle/2328/36057/Akca_Rowland_intimate.pdf?sequence=1
- Geoff Page reviews Line of Drift http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/ review/australian-poetry-anne-kellas-robyn-rowland-frank-russo/news-story/6947a273762afe8ee5f10a5d1a78c353
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