Perverse Serenity

Robyn Rowland is an Australian-Irish poet regularly visiting Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry. Her work appears in national and international journals and in over 40 anthologies, including eight editions of Best Australian Poems. She has read in many countries including, Bosnia, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, Canada, India, and Portugal where she has been published. She was filmed reading for the National Poetry Archives, James Joyce Library UCD Ireland.

"Here is a picture of woman's divided loves, for a love in Ireland and for one in Australia, drawn with rare honesty and compelling strength of observation which involves the reader. Here is writing not afraid to be vulnerable, not trapped in literary artifice, not reticent about emotion, its hopes, its fears, its withdrawals and assertions, which we all share and which enrich our humanity. A memorable picture emerges of a contemporary woman, intelligent and able to feel deeply, who is not afraid to feel the incompleteness, the unfinished edges of human love." -- Barrett Reid.