Composing in Exile

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  • Rosemarie Rowley Independent

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2010.1.1.348

Abstract

Rosemarie Rowley

 

Rosemarie Rowley was born in 1942. She received a Dublin Corporation scholarship in the fifties, has degrees in Irish and English literature (with Distinction) at Trinity College, Dublin, philosophy, and, later,  psychology (National University of Ireland). While at Trinity College in the 1960s she published her first poems. After working as a teacher, in the nascent film industry in Ireland, and as a European fonctionnaire in Luxembourg, she took early retirement and began to participate in the emerging environmental movement in Ireland. She has published five books of poetry, not counting a Cold War poetry pamphlet, “Politry” and has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition. “The Sea of Affliction” (1987) counts as one of the first works in eco-feminism ( The Irish Literary Revival website). Her most recent books are “Hot Cinquefoil Star” (2002) and “In Memory of Her” (2004, 2008) both published by Rowan Tree Press, Dublin. See also http://www.rosemarierowley.ie/

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Author Biography

Rosemarie Rowley, Independent

Email: rowleyrosie@yahoo.ie

 

BRIEF BIO

 

Rosemarie Rowley was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where she published her first poems in the Sixties, and she has degrees in Irish and English literature, and philosophy;  and a diploma in psychology.  She also holds a Master of Literature degree for her work on the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.

 

Rosemarie  has published five books of poetry which include some of her long poems –she  has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition. 

 

Among her works in print  are “Hot Cinquefoil Star” (2002) and “In Memory of Her” (2004, 2008) both published by Rowan Tree Press, Dublin, which contain some of these prizewinning long poems.

 

In 2003 she co-edited an anthology of poems about trees Seeing the Wood and the Trees.

 

“The Sea of Affliction” (1987) one of the first works in eco-feminism, was written in the ‘sixties, and published later when Rosemarie worked as Coordinator for the emerging green movement in Ireland. It is  re-issued in 2010.

 

A selection of Rosemarie Rowley’s poetry, including her book-length poem in terza rima, “Flight into Reality”  can be accessed at the University of Toronto’s “Representative Poetry Online” at:

 

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/521.html

Recently, The Wooing of Etain based on the Old Irish myth, written in the traditional form of Rhyme Royale, was published in Transverse, Journal of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Press, 2007, online at

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/Transverse7.pdf

Her account of her work in the early days of the Irish green movement can be accessed at:

http://reconstruction.eserver.org/072/contents072.shtml

 

Some of these items are linked in her web pages at:

www.rosemarierowley.ie

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Published

2010-04-26

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): New Ecocritical Perspectives: European and Transnational Ecocriticism

Section

Creative Writing and Arts

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