Publications
Rosemarie Rowley PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
The Broken Pledge Martello, Dublin, l985
The Sea of Affliction
a pioneering work of eco-feminism Comark, Rowan Tree, 1987
Flight into Reality
- a book-length poem in terza rima – a modern take on Egyptian myth Rowan Tree Press, Dublin l989
Politry Rowan Tree Press l988
Hot Cinquefoil Star Rowan Tree Press, 2002
inc. Flight into Reality
The Poet’s Visit, The Puzzle Factory, A
Ruby Garland for George and Nora, Letter to Kathleen Raine
In Memory of Her Rowan Tree Press, 2008
inc. Poems Written on Certain Occasions,
Betrayal into Origin – Dancing & Revolution in the 60s, The Wake of Wonder, Faustina in Sestinae
Translations
You Are the Earth from the Italian of Mimmo Morina,
Alma Tellus from the Italian of Mimmo Morina,
Euro Editions, l996 l997.
Anonymous Women Bards of Connaught – Thessaloniki European Capital of Culture, l997, BBC Woman’s Hour, May l998, Cork Literary Review, 2003
Awards
Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, Epic Award, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004
Image Maxwell House short story award, l988 ..”there was a house….”
Anthologies
Seeing the Wood and the Trees editor with John Haughton, Forest Friends Ireland with Rowan Tree Press, 2003
Extended Wings, Vols. 1 and 2, 1993, l994 (editor),
The Book of Cabra (ed. Dermot Bolger)
Poets for Africa (ed. Lynda Moran)
Byzantium (ed. Gearailt Mac Eoin)
Voices from Wollaston Lake (eds. Goldstick and Graham)
And God Created Woman (ed. Susan White)
Between Innocence and Peace (ed. Brendan Kennelly)
Galway’s Pirate Women (ed. Margretta D’Arcy)
Extended Wings Vol.5 (ed. Christine Broe)
An Bhileog Bhan – The White Page (ed. Joan McBreen),
At the Year’s Turning – poems on Leopardi ed. Marco Sonzogni, Dedalus, Dublin 1998
Literary Reviews, Essays and Papers
Flops History of TCD – History supplement magazine, Trinity College, Dublin 1967
This Year in Edinburgh Irish Times, 1968
Trinity of Irish Poets Irish Times 1970
Alchemy and Johnson Irish Times, 1970
The Focus Theatre The Week in Ireland, 1970
The Twisted Thread, M.Litt. thesis awarded Trinity College, l984.
The Journey Eavan Boland, Sunday Tribune, January l987
Simone Weil, Sunday Tribune February, l987
Women Scholars at Harvard Sunday Tribune, May, l987
Dancing to Different Tunes, review of book by Ethna Viney, Women’s Political Association journal, 1998
Bryon and the Sea – paper delivered to International Byron Conference, University of Liverpool, 2003, published French Byron Society, 2005
Superman in the Phone Booth GB Shaw and the attack from the Left – International Shaw Society, Florida, 2004
The Annihilation of the Flesh Rotted Word the works of Patrick Kavanagh, ISAIL Irish Literature Conference, Galway, 2004
Love and Impairment in the Modern Era Poetry and Sexuality Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland, 2004
Byron and Joyce, talk at the Sorbonne, Paris, with the International Byron Society 2006
Byron and Modern Psychology, University of Venice, 2007
Confessions of an Eco-Feminist in Women Writing Nature edited by Barbara J. Cook, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. Lanham, MD 20706, UK Plythmouth PL6 7PY, UK, ISBN -13 978-0-7391-1912-9, 2008
Psychology
M.D. and Inconsistent Re-inforcers NUI l995
Predictability and Unpredictability NUI l996
ECT in the life and work of Sylvia Plath, Thumbscrew, Oxford, l998 ed. Tim Kendall
Essays and Green Papers
Freedom and Censorship Rowan Tree Press, l987, 1996
Women and the Constitution, Administration, Vol. 37, No. 1, l989 ed. F. Litton; update: Women’s Political Assoc. Journal, 1997 ed. Angela Davies Grayson
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Across the Frontiers, Ed. R. Kearney, Wolfhound, l988
Is there a solution to Northern Ireland that will work?
Shakespeare’s Dilemma – single parents and feminism
The Tragedy of the Commons air, sea belong to no one
Nuacht Glas journal of Irish Green Alliance, 1984-88
Advertising – creates stereotypes and promotes waste
Women and the Greens
Acknowledgements are due to editors
Hayden Murphy, Broadsheet; Kevin Kiely, New Writing, Books Ireland; Senator Brendan Ryan, Disarm!, Patrick Galvin, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Arts Publications; Nessa O’Mahony, Electric Acorn, James Conway, Chair, Rathmines Writers, Extended Wings; Paul Nash, Icarus; Brian Fallon,The Irish Times; David Marcus, The Irish Press; Mimmo Morina, Nouvel Europa; Gwen McNamara, Reddest Stolen Cherries; Michael O Flanagan, Riposte; Miles Goldstick and John Graham, Voices from Wollaston Lake; and Marianne McGiffen, Womanspirit in which my poems first appeared.
Thanks are due also to my publishers, Maureen Charlton of Martello, Christine Gara of Comark, and Margretta d’Arcy of Galway’s Pirate Women, and a special thank you to Henry Mair, of Ayrshire Writers and Artists Society, for his Trojan work in organizing and judging the Scottish Open International Poetry Competition for the past 40 years.
Some Comments about Rosemarie Rowley’s work
“A master of form” – Brendan Kennelly
“100% improvement on Christina Rossetti” Geoffrey Thurley
“Her voice is one of heart-breaking beauty” – Roz Cowman
“Originality, commitment, and real literary ability” Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
“I like the poems..I keep hearing something in them that I’m always listening for..and rarely catch” – Ted Hughes
“Her range of vocabulary and phrasing is impressive ..a true poet….her finest poems wear their learning lightly – she excels as a critic” – Declan Kiberd
“Lyrics of a rare strength and delicacy” John McGahern
“I have listened to (Flight into Reality”) with a lot of pleasure.. I think it is quite beautiful and very thought-provoking – Brendan Glacken
“Startling” – Nuala O Faolain
“I could never have attempted a long poem myself, and admire your ability to do so as well as you do…indeed, all your work…” Kathleen Raine
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If one dreamer lives all lives
That one in all our many knows
How vain our tears, how vain
Our hopes and fears,
Since dreams are only dreams.
- Kathleen Raine -
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