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Robyn Rowland

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Robyn Rowland http://robynrowland.com/

Robyn is an Irish-Australian citizen and has been living in both Connemara and Australia for over 20 years. She regularly works in Turkey. She has written 15 books, 12 of poetry.

Four of her books came out of the Irish landscape and history. Then her interests were caught in Turkey and the old Ottoman Empire. In 2015 came the ground-breaking history in poetry, her bi-lingual 'This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915' . Turkish trans. Mehmet Ali Çelikel.

In 'Mosaics From The Map' again history is lived in the intimate. Personal stories explore war, change, family and friendship – in Ireland, Turkey, the Balkans and Australia. 'Here are powerful, wise poems of humane sensitivity and good sense, a voice pitched always in the true register of compassion', wrote Theo Dorgan, 'luminous meditations that open up original avenues of vision and thought. Straight from the heart.'

Robyn’s most recent book 'Under This Saffron Sun / Safran Güneşin Altında', , returns to Turkey; capturing place, friendship, change and uncovering the similarities between peoples which unite us all, rather than divide. It gently alludes to Syrian refugees, to the desire for peace and for stability, to hold onto the things which bind. Mostly, it is about friendship, different ways with love and place. Of this book Paula Meehan, Ireland Professor of Poetry wrote: ‘Everywhere here a flag is hoisted for our common and shared humanity, in language rich, resonant, precise … From Istanbul to Cappadocia, to Marmaris, a book of the good things we find on this earth: a song of colour, pattern, taste and feeling, ‘weaving that needs the map inside the hand’ as she so memorably puts it … the ultimate healing solace to be found in ‘the authenticity/ of connection.’

Robyn’s poetry appears in national and international journals, and in over 40 anthologies, including Being Human, ed. Neil Astley and 8 editions of Best Australian Poems . She has read and taught in Ireland for 36 years and has been invited to read in India, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, the USA, Greece, Austria, Bosnia, Serbia, Turkey and Italy, where, along with Canada, Spain and Japan, she has also been published, sometimes in translation.

Her work has been featured on ABC’s PoeticA, the RTE Poetry Program and TG4 . She has been filmed reading for the National Irish Poetry Reading Archive, James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. She has two CDs of poetry, Silver Leaving – Poems & Harp with Lynn Saoirse, and Off the Tongue.

Reading links:
Robyn Rowland gives an introduction to her poetry
https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:46268

Robyn Rowland reads her poem 'Green Road'
https://vimeo.com/177252434

Robyn Rowland reads her poem ‘Adhesion’
https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:46269

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Books from Robyn Rowland

Man-Made Women: How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women

Women Who Do and Women Who Don't Join the Women's Movement

Seasons of Doubt & Burning: New & Selected Poems

Perverse Serenity

Mosaics from the Map

This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915: Icli Disli Bir Savas: Gelibolu/Canakkale 1915

Woman Herself: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Women's Identity

Under this Saffron Sun /Safran Güneşin Altında

Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies

Line of Drift

Shadows At The Gate

Crannóg 46: Autumn 2017