Dear All, please join us for a night of great poetry with Robyn Rowland on February 7th - 6-7pm at the chapel of the Uniting Church, Castlemaine, and zoomed from there. Robyn will read for 20 minutes, followed by the popular QnA involving the audience, concluding with her encore.
We pay our respects to traditional owners, the Dja Dja Warung, their elders past, present and emerging.
$5 donation appreciated. A complimentary glass of wine is available courtesy of Boom Town Winery.
Thanks to the Uniting church for making the space available for poetry in the 21st year of these events in Castlemaine.
Zoom link posted by Thursday 6th February.
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Dr. Robyn Rowland AO is an Australian-Irish citizen, now living in Victoria, after living between
Ireland and Australia for over 30 years, and working, teaching and reading in Türkiye since 2009.
From December 2019 until late 2022 she lived in NSW, caring for her father, who died, aged 102.
She has 15 books, 12 of poetry, most recently, Steep Curve ( 5Islands Press); Under This Saffron Sun
– Safran Güneşin Altında, (Knocknarone Press, Ireland 2019) and This Intimate War
Gallipoli/Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/Çanakkale 1915 (FIP, 2015; repub.
Spinifex Press, Australia, 2018), bilingual with Turkish translations by Mehmet Ali Çelikel. Mosaics
from the Map came out in 2018 (Doire Press, Ireland). She has won or been listed for many prizes
and awarded Australia Council and Copyrigth Agency grants, as well as various writing residencies,
most recently in Venice in 2023 and 2025. She has been published in poetry for over 50 years.
Winning numerous prizes, recently her poems were shortlisted for many, including the ACU Poetry
Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Lane Cove Poetry Prize, Society of Women Writers National
Poetry Prize, Antipodes: Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature International Poetry
prize.
In over 50 years of publishing, Robyn Rowland has published multiple book reviews, journals articles and book
chapters on literature and poetry. Her poetry appears in national/international journals in nine countries, over
forty-five anthologies, and eight editions of Best Australian Poems and in Being Human, ed. Neil Astley
(Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2011). She has read at major literary festivals in India, Portugal, Ireland, UK, USA,
Greece, Austria, Bosnia, Serbia, Turkey and Italy, and is published in translation in a number of these. She is
filmed reading for the National Irish Poetry Reading Archive, James Joyce Library, UCD, available on YouTube
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-gzWdQlBEE Further information is on https://robynrowland.com/
COST: $5 donation. Complimentary glass of wine courtesy Boom Town.
This helps pay the poet for their reading. We are not funded and receive no grant.
Event is onsite in Castlemaine and will also be available via zoom. For the zoom link, check on the day prior to the event at https://www.facebook.com/ross.donlon.58