The Transitional Heart: Writing Poetry on War, Grief and the Intimacy of Shared Loss in Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 1, 177–195. Invited to submit a piece on my Gallipoli poems, I was thrilled when the journal editors wanted to publish some of the poems in English and Turkish, with the wonderful…
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Dualities. ”Rowland is now an Irish poet as much as she is an Australian one’.
Geoff Page has reviewed 'Line of Drift' for the Australian and it's truly lovely, with a light feather across the knuckles! I am particularly happy that he understands the Irish-English in the lines and that he reads an authenticity of dual belonging. He writes : 'John Foulcher’s imprimatur on the back of Robyn Rowland’s 'Line…
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‘Poppy-hunters, poppy-picking’
By accident a wonderful discovery of a fine online review of my book, This Intimate War Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915, Turkish translations Mehmet Ali Çelikel by Clare Rhoden. She writes: 'Creatively, the book is a triumph'. She really understands the purpose of the book and is graciously full of praise for the…
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